Mobile TV

Mobile TV is television service delivered to subscribers via mobile telecommunications networks, such as the mobile phone carriers. In 2005, South Korea became the first country in the world to have mobile TV when it started satellite DMB (S-DMB) and terrestrial DMB (T-DMB) service on May 1 and December 1, respectively. Today, South Korea and Japan are at the forefront of this developing sector^[1].Mobile TV services have been launched by the operator CSL in Hong Kong in March 2006 on the 3G network. ^[2] BT in the United Kingdom was the among the first companies outside South Korea to launch Mobile TV in September 2006, although the service was abadoned less than a year later^[3]. The same happened to “MFD Mobiles Fernsehen Deutschland”, who launched their DMB-based service June 2006 in Germany, and stopped it in April 2008^[4]. Also in June 2006, mobile operator 3 in Italy (part of Hutchison Whampoa) launched their mobile TV service, but opposed to their counterpart in Germany this was based on DVB-H^[5]. Sprint started offering the service in February 2006 and was the first US carrier to offer the service. In the US Verizon Wireless and more recently AT&T are offering the service.

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Now, what do you think of the Japanese magazine scene?

I like magazines that show their creators’ personalities. Unfortunately, there are not so many magazines like that in Japan. Perhaps Japanese publishers are thinking too much about how to improve their sales or getting the message of the magazine across. In the Japanese market, it is very difficult to strike a balance between business imperatives and creativity.

I asked this same question of Jeremy Leslie of We Love Magazines before: What do you think is the future of magazines?

I asked that of many of the chief editors of the magazines appearing in the book. Many replied that they want to make magazines and so that is what they do. They are not that worried about the threat of the Internet. Also, anyone can make a magazine – but not everyone can get great photographers and writers to contribute to it. That is why high quality magazines will survive. Magazines that are primary information magazines probably are more convenient online, and some of them will disappear.

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         News reported that Singapore is planning to buy 100 F-35 JSFs in next decade. So prepared to pay more tax.