Wi-Fi will boost mobile TV revenues

NEW DELHI, INDIA: The sudden spurt in next generation networks like 3G, BWA, 4G and LTE in recent times have in turn given a boost to the telecom and ICT industry, helping the floundering technologies like IPTV, VoIP and unified communications gain steam.

While mobile TV has been through some tough times recently due to issues with respect to policy control and data traffic offload, the coming of BWA is set to push broadband penetration, and help in liberalizing government policy, according to the industry.

Fueling such hopes is a new report published by Juniper Research, which supports the industry perspective that a surge in applications which can take advantage of the increasing availability of free Wi-Fi services are set to boost the global mobile TV industry with anticipated revenues of nearly $7 billion by 2015.

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