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Carriers holding back mobile media

Posted by Peter on March 25, 2008 under Events, Mobile, nextNY

Mobile MondayMobile Monday at the Columbus Circle Samsung Experience Center again demonstrated that mobile media requires patience. The carriers set the pace.

One of the brave startups entering the space is Qik with a nifty live video streaming solution.

When Dean Collins asked about the business model, someone shouted ‘who cares!’ and Qik’s Bhaskar Roy answered: ‘We don’t know yet.’

Mogulus is working with Qik to launch mobile Flash and Java-based add-ons for their service before the end of the year.

‘Why do we care about the carriers?’ said Segala CEO Paul Walsh. ‘They’re carriers, not content providers. They are only one stakeholder in the ecosystem.’

The tough-talking Brit, also chairman of the British Interactive Media Association (BIMA), argued that content providers should force carriers to increase bandwidth and introduce flat fee by providing heavy apps that consumers want.

‘It’s no different from where we were fifteen years ago,’ said Walsh, referring to his experiences at AOL in the mid-1990s. Indeed mobile still feels like the painful early days of dial-up internet.

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