TV Stations About To Make A Bad Bet On Mobile Broadcast TV

Courtesy Techdirt  Fri, 04/18/2008 - 05:34

Every few months over the past few years, we've heard stories about how some companies somewhere were betting on people watching broadcast television on their mobiles.

The problem, however, is that it's always been companies betting on the phenomenon -- and not users clamoring for it.

And, despite wild predictions from analyst firms who sell their reports to eager companies who want to convince their investors that something big is coming, almost every real world test has shown that people...

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