Mobile TV Awareness, Then Adoption

Mobile broadcast TV subscribers will total 155.6 million worldwide by the end of 2012, up from 4.4 million in June 2007, according to Datamonitor's "Opportunities in the Mobile Broadcast TV Market, 2006-2012" report.

Infonetics had estimated previously that paying mobile TV subscribers would total 46 million in 2010. Datamonitor's 2010 estimate is a more aggressive 65.6 million.

eMarketer projects that by 2011 there will be significantly more paying mobile video subscribers than mobile TV subscribers worldwide, largely because of the level of 3G penetration. Specifically, there will be approximately 120 million 3G subscribers who pay a premium on top of their data subscriptions for mobile video clips or streams. There will be nearly 80 million mobile TV subscribers worldwide by 2011.

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