Mobile Television Viewers To Reach 54 Million This Year

by Mobilemaniac on 26 August, 2009

mobile television1 Mobile Television Viewers To Reach 54 Million This YearMobile Television is the blend of two most common electronics gadgets; television and mobile phone. As anticipated, mobile television was warmly welcomed by the technofreaks. It is generally observed that the mobile television is slightly sluggish to load, however loads of people find it quite entertaining. According to the reports, more than 18 million people were using mobile televisions in 2009.

The industry watchers speculate it to increase it in triple the amount by the end of this year. Yes.. Experts are calculating that almost 54 million users will be there for mobile television by the end of 2009. As per the experts’ opinion, it will again rise steeply into 300 million users by 2013. The study on the usage of mobile television was conducted by In-Stat and Telegent Systems, and their survey reports reveal that most of the users watch mobile television three times a week.

Almost 20 percent of the respondents in the survey revealed that they are watching mobile television daily. The researchers revealed that in certain areas more than 40 percent watched mobile television daily. News and sports are still the favourites of the mobile television watchers. Most of the viewers tune into the mobile televisions during travel or at the breaks in work place.

Flo TV is a television service owned by Qualcomm. They revealed that the tremendous spikes in mobile television viewing is for sports and news; however the MJ memorial service was an exception. Jonathan Barzilay, the senior Vice President of Flo TV commented that mobile television is not meant to be used for eight hours like a typical house hold television. He added that thirty minutes is indeed a meaningful figure for mobile television.

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