Mobile TV Brings Chance To Fixed-line Operators

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Mar 28, 2011 12:28 PM, By Philip Hunter

Mobile TV presents fixed-line service operators with a great chance to grab income back from mobile operators. This perspective from BT may be approaching from an user that withdrew from the mobile marketplace by selling its mobile operator, Cellnet, in 2001, but moreover reflects a rsther than unusual fact about mobile TV: Most of it is used up at home. Indeed, 85 to 90 percent of mobile information traffic in broad is generated inside of the home of the subscriber, according to Simon Orme, plan executive for calm services at BT's indiscriminate division. Most mobile information is thus portion the needs of portability, similar to a cordless residence phone, rsther than than loyal mobility. As Orme sharp out at the IPTV World Forum, mobile information is flourishing fast, but it's still 6 years at the back fixed-line information with no signs of infectious up - "more of a sputter than a tsunami," as he put it.

Nonetheless, mobile information inside of the home will enlarge hurriedly over the next couple of years, and many of that will be mobile video. But if it stays inside of the home, it will not need a loyal wide-scale mobile network to bring it. It may be served possibly by WiFi or by femtocells bending in to the wider mobile network but partitioned from it. Instead of issuing out over the mobile infrastructure, it would be backhauled right away in to the fixed-line network portion the home, at least if BT has its way, without a mobile network of its own.

Certainly, mobile information backhaul or unload will turn large business, and BT's evidence is that the large fixed-line networks have larger economies of scale than the core networks of mobile operators, precisely since they are 6 years forward in conditions of growth, and so have larger capacity. This enables them to offer descend megabit-per-second costs.

It could be then that loyal fixed/mobile joining does arrive inside of the next couple of years, but with the determined wireline infrastructures gobbling up the traffic.