Even though more countries started commercial mobile broadcast TV services in 2009, a lack of viable business models, low device variety and slow licensing processes are hampering market development according to the most recent market round-up by bmcoforum.

The updated report "Mobile Broadcast Business Models - Progress of Country-specific Implementations" from the international designed to shape open markets for media delivery, describes the recent regulatory framework and implementation status as of the beginning of 2010 in countries with existing mobile TV service offers.

On the basis of this report, the bmcoforum concluded that the main bottle necks for mobile broadcast TV are lacks of viable business models, low device variety, slow licensing processes. Yet despite these limiting factors, the report revealed that the number of mobile broadcast TV users considerably increased around the world in 2009, with high dynamics in Asia and other continents to follow.

In all, the report covers 36 countries with new chapters on China, the Czech Republic, Ghana, Indonesia, Iraq, Kenya, Korea, Namibia, Nigeria, the Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Taiwan and 5 South-American countries. The status of all other countries has been updated.

Stand out findings include CMMB services launched in 280 Chinese cities, new DMB 2.0 service in Korea, ISDB-T (1seg) in Brazil and other South-American countries; the widened FLO TV device spectrum and ATSC-M/H progress in the US; DVB-H services in 5 African countries; new DVB-H licenses in the UAE, Poland and Moscow; the new DVB-SH hybrid satellite/terrestrial live network in Paris.