| | Mediaset, TIM Strike Deal for TV Over Cellphones PC Magazine - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | Italy is expected to be a fertile ground for the new technology because Italians number among the world's keenest watchers of television and owners of mobile phones. |
 | | Companies hope the marriage of mobile phones, which are already used by about 315 million Europeans, and TV, which is watched by almost 160 million households across the continent, will be more profitable than building cameras into mobile phoneswhich has proved commercially disappointing to date. |
 | | But critics argue that although rival broadcast mobile TV services could run on existing spectrum and transmission networks and are being tested in advanced countries such as South Korea, complex licensing problems, fewer channels and an inferior technological performance could make it too expensive. |
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