Tuesday, October 2. 2007
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Now VTC may have regreted they had picked Nokia over the Koreans. While
Nokia keeps boasting about the supremacy of the DVB-H standards over
that of the Koreans, the simple fact is Korea is the only country in the
world has really put mobile-TV on mass market. There are tons of mobile
models in Korea supporting TV, their prices start as low as less than
200USD, and new sexy models coming everyday. A Korean friend even told
me overthere it's very hard now to find a new model WITHOUT TV functions
!
On the other hand, VTC has been tight to Nokia with too few pricey and
poorly-designed models - who would spend 700USD to purchase a phone that
has not even the silent mode (Nokia N72), certainly not any working guy.
Worse still, Nokia do not show any hurry in chunking out new models.
For now all options you set out are too difficult for VTC. Option 1 and
2 are on Nokia's hands (with no promise uhmm), and option 3 is just too
painful to get accepted. I see the only small hope for VTC now is the
coming Worldcup, maybe some soccer fan-cum-gamblers would be eager to
use VTC service so that they can follow the game anywhere while on other
things (and while on hinding from the cops 
Nokia is even horrible here in the states. Good article though.
Alternatively VTC could approach a vendor with an open DVB-H platform
and swap out some of the proprietary components of the Nokia solution.
This would open up the handset market to a multitude of other connected
and unconnected devices from Samsung, LG, Gigabyte, Motorola, Quantum
and all the other devices that can be used here in Italy with the any of
the three operators that have launched DVB-H services.
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