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...make cheap Internet-based VOIP (voice over Internet protocol) phone calls through the Cloud's hot spots. VOIP has already eaten into the traditional fixed-line business. It's now poised to do the same thing to mobile operators, threatening to take a chunk of what London research firm Informa Telecoms & Media says will be a $550 billion mobile-voice business by 2010. Polk volleyed in July, when he partnered with VOIP champion Skype (now part of eBay) to allow Skype software users to call anywhere from hot spots through headset-equipped laptops. If just some of Skype...
...there really a mass market of people who need real-time TV broadcasts on the road? The underlying technology is already with us: there are over 200 million broadband subscriptions in the world, growing to over 400 million by 2010, according to market research firm In-Stat. And Informa Telecoms & Media says there are over 2 billion mobile-phone subscribers, growing to 3 billion by 2008, many of whom will have high-speed service. Each of those are candidates to haul their home TVs around on their laptop and phone screens without having to buy pricey video packages from mobile...
...trials succeed. Handset firms like Nokia stand to sell more - and more expensive - gadgets, after seeing sales of more ordinary phones slow recently; broadcasters could enjoy a spike in viewers and advertising revenue; and mobile operators, at least initially, could boost their turnovers, too. London research firm Informa Telecoms & Media estimates that by 2010 the market for mobile entertainment - which includes TV as well as games and music - will reach $42 billion. Dermot Nolan, an analyst who has written a report on mobile TV for London consultancy Screen Digest, notes that in Britain alone there are 55 million mobile users...
...between Internet service and phone service are blurring, and just as voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) has shaken up the fixed-line phone business, it is now poised to disrupt the mobile business. At stake is a slice of the $550 billion in voice revenue that London research firm Informa Telecoms & Media says mobile operators will generate in 2010. The revelation in August that Google will begin providing free voice transmissions over computers, and Microsoft's announced acquisition last week of the VoIP start-up Teleo, show that the biggest tech players are not going to sit this game...
...offer iTunes in Europe before mid-2004, with Napster waiting even longer to make the crossing. Lengthy negotiations to secure licenses from the major record labels don't help. "Deals will probably have to be negotiated in separate countries for Europe," says Simon Dyson, senior analyst at the Informa Media Group in London. "Some artists won't want their...