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.

Mobile video specialist MobiTV has reported that mobile access to live events, breaking news and entertainment have driven a 49% increase in viewing minutes for its mobile TV and video on demand services on a daily basis compared to a year ago.

Driven by the growing consumer demand for video content on an anytime, anywhere basis, the global mobile satellite TV market is projected to reach $11 billion by 2015, according to a new report by Global Industry Analysts (GIA).

Even though it revealed a cooling in optimism, the latest Business Confidence Index (BCI) from the Mobile Entertainment Forum is projecting a $36 billion mobile media industry for 2010.

QuickPlay Media's now traditional quarterly survey of its mobile TV and video users has revealed increases in average number of downloads per user and average viewing time per stream.

The proliferation of mobile-ready devices and widespread mobile video content consumption will be the engines for a dramatic rise in mobile data traffic according to the latest Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Global Mobile Data Forecast.

ABI Research is predicting that Apple launch of the iPad will kick start a new market segment for media tablets that will grow from four million units shipped by the end of 2010 to 57 million by 2015.

The Asia-Pacific region alone is expected to account for two-thirds of the global mobile TV subscribers by the end of 2013, according to new research from RNCOS.

Even though Long term evolution (LTE), the 4G mobile broadband standard, appears the clear choice for the next leap in wireless technology, a new report by In-Stat warns that the efficiency of 3G networks may hinder rapid network deployment.

Shipments of MPEG ICs which support compression and decompression of digital video, will take off rapidly as consumption of digital video applications increases on more devices according to a new survey by In-Stat, reports Chris Boeree.