Personalisation and interactivity will be the key drivers of mobile TV according to a new report commissioned by Nokia and conducted by Dr Shani Orgad from the London School of Economics. The report, titled 'This Box Was Made For Walking', examines the future impact of mobile TV on the broadcasting and advertising industries. The report predicts that the introduction and adoption of mobile TV will ultimately give way to a more personal and private TV experience than that of traditional broadcast TV, with big implications for users, content providers and advertisers. Users will be able to receive content anytime, anywhere, choose what is most relevant to them, and even create and upload their own television content, while content providers and advertisers ...

Posted by Budi Putra on November 10th, 2006 No Comments »

The future of music industry will rely on mobile phone and 3G technology will be a great enabler for it. The mobile phone is set to become the retail channel of the future for music fans according to a report published by 3. The report investigates how young people are using new technology to revolutionise the way they access and listen to music and reveals some startling results for the music industry: Music purchased on mobile is the fastest growing music format - up 100% on 2005 Mobile could overtake computer based music purchases within 5 years Six out of ten under 24 year olds have purchased music via a mobile Downtime' is becoming the newcommerce space for music retailing Two thirds say they buy on public ...

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Libya is set to get its first 3G network, with the country’s second largest cellular operator Libyana rolling out a W-CDMA and HSDPA network covering 14 cities. Libyana has contracted ZTE of China to supply its 3G infrastructure. The new network will have an initial capacity of one million lines. State-owned Libyana had around 700,000 subscribers and a 40% share of the market at the end of June. Link

Posted by Budi Putra on November 3rd, 2006 No Comments »

A two-month trial of China's third generation mobile technology will begin on either Sunday or Monday in Beijing, Shanghai and three other cities in China, Sina.com reported today. TD-SCDMA, time division-synchronous code division multiple access, was developed in China and is one of the world's three next-generation mobile standards. Initially, the trial TD-SCDMA network will involve 20,000 users in Shandong Province's Qingdao City, Hebei Province's Baoding City and Xiamen City in Fujian Province. They will use new cell phone numbers beginning with 188 or 199 in the trial. Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co and China International Telecommunications Construction Corp will organize the trial in Beijing, where no more than 5,000 people will participate. Datang, China's flagship developer of the country's 3G network, has ...

Posted by Budi Putra on November 3rd, 2006 1 Comment »