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T-DMB becomes one of four global standards for mobile TV

Monday, December 17th, 2007

Several Korean newspapers (such as The Electronic Times) reported today about how the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has made T-DMB one out of four global standards for mobile TV, the others being DVB-H, MediaFLO and 1seg.
All standards have their pros and cons of course. T-DMB is most extensively used and tested, with South Korea […]

Unexploited potential in Korean mobile TV market

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

Many people from all over the world claim that Korea is the most strong player in Mobile TV. True. But by what means?
If we look at the numbers of who use mobile TV in Korea, the answer is ‘YES’. (Now more than 7 million people watch mobile TV in Korea). From the point of profitable […]

Mobile TV report soon to be published

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

Based on requests we receive and also monitoring global media one area of huge interest is mobile TV. In most parts of the world it is a feature soon to be introduced by broadcasters or MNO’s, e.g. BBC and Channel 4 have recently announced to offer mobile TV in the upcoming year.
In order to […]

Who are buying Prada Phones- Case of Korea

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

 
Prada Phone has made its market debut in Korea about a month ago. I was also one of the people who were expecting it to come and recently I found an interesting article on Prada phone.
In Korea, it was provided initially by LG Telecom (No 3 Player in Korea with Market share of 17%. The […]

The Mobile TV users surpass 6-millions in Korea

Monday, June 18th, 2007

The Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) users surpassed 6-million. This figure means 1.3 out of 10 Koreans has DMB player.According to the survey announced on June 14th by the Ministry of information and Communication, after DMB service started on 2005, the number of TDMB players sold is 5.3 million and the subscribers of SDMB service is […]