Mobile TV to Hit Big by 2012
Mobile telly may yet be set for the big time - research predicts the number of subscribers will jump from a niche 4.4 million today to 155.6 million by the end of 2012.
That's according to analyst Datamonitor - which predicts mobile TV's global subscriber base will swell to 65.6 million in 2010 and then more than double to 155.6 million by the end of 2012, a year-on-year growth rate of 66.2 per cent.
The region expected to be most switched on to pocket-sized screens is Asia Pacific, which is set to have 76.3 million subscribers by 2012, according to Datamonitor. This will be followed by Europe - with 42.7 million subscribers by 2012, a growth rate of 102 per cent year-on-year from 2006 - while North America is forecast to gain 35.6 million square-eyed mobile users.
