Free Television On Cell Phones

TV might be the next big (and free) trend with cell phones, according to The Street. The Korean based LG company certainly has its heart set on the new trend.

The Street reports that, as per Reuters, LG as just announced and introduced a handset which will let users watch televison via over the air digital broadcasts of channels on their phone – and they will not be required to pay their wireless companies a monthly fee to enjoy it, either.

LG’s new technology provides a significant threat to such big league cell phone companies as AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint. These companies, among others, had very high hopes about turning towards the extremely lucrative television business as it exists for mobile phones in the future, but this might be the end of that dream.

The LG HB6320T is designed to tap right into existing televison broadcasts. What this means is that operators will miss out on the revenue which stems from broadcasts which are streamed over 3G and 4G networks or on mobile broadcasting platforms.

The new LG phones utilize digital television signals broadcasting to television sets – also known as DVB-T. This is becoming the new standard in a rather chaotic and fragmented market. For example, while companies like Nokia are pulling, instead, for DVB-H, others are throwing in their vote for DMB and Qualcomm’s MediaFLO. Qualcomm is an “ecosystem with highly scalable global and open mobile entertainment platform with the highest content capacity combined with a visually compelling mobile experience,” quotes The Street, straight from Qualcomm’s description.

However, these mobile television platforms may fall to the wayside in the future, if other companies will be able to provide users with better technology as it applies to digital television programming. Especially if it comes at no additional monthly costs. Analysts are already predicting that DVB-T could possibly threaten the livelihood of other mobile television technologies.