TU Media has been able to acquire the simultaneous re-transmission rights from MBC according to an interesting article I just read. This represents a big step for TU Media but it comes two and a half years too late.
As TU Media started operations in mid 2005 it tried to acquire simultaneous re-transmission rights from broadcasters. […]
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 […]
There are rumors in Korean press that SK Telecom is hesitant to inject more money in its S-DMB business and TU Media, because reaching the break-even is unlikely. Although subscribers have reached almost 1.3 million in September 2007 TU Media has generated only losses. Together with initial investments of about 250 million USD overall this […]
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 […]
A lot of people in Europe and the U.S. are wondering which contents will become the “killer content” for mobile TV, which will make people embrace this new service. As you might know mobile TV has been introduced in Korea in 2005 and as of today has approximately 7 million users (2 million S-DMB / […]
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 […]
This August, I am speaking at iMobicon 2007 on the landscape of ‘Korean Social Networking and Mobile TV’. If you are not familiar with iMobicon, it is an international conference organized by Informa only focuing on Korean Mobile industry.
Most major mobile related companies will participate such as SK Telecom, KTF,Cyworld and many more.
You can find […]
Story: Husband come back to Korea after 2 years and his wife and son come to airport to meet him. His wife tries to jump into husband but..
Video call is not a dream any more in Korea
Have you ever dreamed calling your girl friend with seeing her face?
If yes, Your dream has already came true […]
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 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 […]
