Korea Marks More Than 6 Million Mobile Movie Delivery Subscribers
Watching TV on your phone seems to be a hit in Korea:
The leading company in movie services is KTF Co., Ltd., Korea’s second largest service provider. The company commenced its service called “Fimm” (First in Mobile Multimedia) in May 2002 and attracted 3.405 million users as of May 2004. Its rival, SK Telecom, the top service provider in Korea, developed “June,” its movie contents service developed exclusively for 1xEV-DO, and obtained more than 2.645 million users.
The firms say that particularly popular contents are terrestrial TV programs encoded for mobile phones. “Such contents account for 40% of our total movie contents sales,” according to KTF media contents team senior Sohn Chang Hwa.
September 7th, 2004 at 1:22 pm
That should give the TiVO/Netflix deal rumors a boost and some substantiality… although, granted, Koreans are a much different cyber-beast compared to us USAns.
September 7th, 2004 at 1:46 pm
True… but what really blew my mind about these stats is that these 6 million users are downloading movies to mobile phones, not PVRs.