Japan Launches Free Mobile TV Service

11:03 pm on April 2, 2006 | Category: Mobile Devices, Telecom Services

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Japan’s new digital television service for mobile phones was officially launched this past weekend, after several months of text broadcasting.

The service is currently being offered for free, but users must buy new mobile phones with built-in television receivers. Such phones are already hard to come by with demand exceeding supply in many parts of the country.

This isn’t the first time mobile television broadcasts have been offered for free, with a similar service already available in South Korea. The new Japanese offering, however, is unique in that it uses the country’s terrestrial digital broadcasting system to send television signals over the airwaves, rather than through a wireless internet connection.

Japan’s 90 million wireless subscribers already use their phones to surf the web, send email, download music and play games, and most analysts believe that mobile TV will make a nice addition to this mobile multimedia mix.

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