If everything goes as planned, the telephone industry will be all about television in 2005.
TV over your home phone line. TV on your cell phone. Few topics have been as popular this past year among phone companies and their technology partners.
“There’s one application knocking on the door and consumers are truly hungering for it: real-time TV and streaming TV,” Anssi Vanjoki, general manager for multimedia at cell phone maker Nokia Corp., proclaimed at a recent investment conference.
Similarly bold pronouncements have been emanating from a growing list of powerful names, from local phone giants Verizon Communications Inc. and SBC Communications Inc., to wireless chipmakers Qualcomm Inc. and Texas Instruments Inc., to Walt Disney Co., News Corp. and none other than Microsoft Corp.
Source: Yahoo
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