Lesson learned from Finland cold shoulder

November 07, 2007 Look instead several thousand miles north and east to Helsinki, Finland, where, despite the descending winter dreariness, an ongoing, year-old mobile TV travail shines light on what will happen in the big-time world of late-night talk shows and multimillion-dollar sitcoms. Late last year, a TV transmission company owned by French media group TDF named Digita launched a commercial mobile-TV broadcasting service in Finland via DVB-H networks. The plan then would be to then sell access to Finnish cellular carriers, which would resell access to consumers outfitted with broadcast-equipped phones.

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