More Mobile TV Pessimism in Barcelona

It’s not that we want to kick dirt on it while it’s down, but mobile TV isn’t getting much respect this week. MocoNews reports that as a follow-up to yesterday’s post, another panel at the 2008 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona cast doubt on the mobile TV market, saying that BBC Worldwide mobile director Peter Mercier cited M:Metrics stats showing just a 1.2 percent UK take-up:

“The hype you’ve seen at past 3GSMs [the former name for the Mobile World Conference] about mobile TV is not warranted by the real growth,” Mercier said.

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