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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Technology Liberation Front - Latest Comments in Primer on Mobile TV Market</title><link>http://tlf.disqus.com/</link><description>The Technology Liberation Front is the tech policy blog dedicated to keeping politicians' hands off the 'net and everything else related to technology.</description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:18:16 -0000</lastBuildDate><item><title>Re: Primer on Mobile TV Market</title><link>http://techliberation.com/2008/07/20/primer-on-mobile-tv-market/#comment-1455021</link><description>I'll believe it when I see it.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I've actually been working with mobile media startups on and off for almost 4 years in the US, and as far as I can still tell, the core demographic for the services are those who can afford to drive themselves to work.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;If they're driving (commuting), they ain't watching mobile TV.  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The countries with higher adoption rates largely do not have the "drive yourself" culture we have in the US, and of course the biggest markets are those with well-established public transit used by large percentages of the population.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In the US, the folks using public transit aren't the ones buying 3G phones, for the most part.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;My point is, I think we have a long cultural way to go in the US before this becomes ubiquitous here.</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">JonL</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:18:16 -0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>