Shanghai-based technology company Telegent Systems has made it
possible to watch TV on mobile phones free of charge via the
company's recently developed mobile TV simulation chips.
Industry analysts said consumer demands for the mobile TV market
would peak in 2008 with the hosting of the Beijing Olympic
Games.
Telegent Systems' new technology will help domestic mobile phone
manufactures to overtake their foreign counterparts.
The simulation technology will start an innovative upsurge in
China's telecom industry, said Chen Yuping, an official with the
Telecoms Research Institute of the Ministry of Information
Industry.
Relevant investigation predicted that the scale of China's
mobile TV market would reach 2.3 billion yuan and more than double
to 5.9 billion yuan in 2010.
World leading TV audience rating service company AGB Nielsen
predicted that the number of TV viewers for Beijing Olympic Games
would witness a sharp rise from that of the Athens Games in 2004
and hit another record high.
Industry analysts regard mobile TV as another growht area after
photo phones and music phones. The Olympic Games will be a golden
opportunity for its growth.
For more details, please read the full story in Chinese (
http://jjckb.xinhuanet.com/gnyw/2007-09/13/content_66168.htm).
(china.org.cn September 13, 2007)
