Mobile TV starts up jerkily

The "SonntagsZeitung" newspaper tested the mobile TV offers from Swisscom, Orange and Sunrise. The result: watching football on your cell phone is not a pleasure. Jerky pictures, crashes and insufficient bandwidth are still the order of the day. To be able to watch football on a cell phone at all, a model with a large screen is indispensable. In addition, the delay of mobile live TV compared to live television is 9 to 14 seconds. The World Cup is expected to bring mobile phone operators a breakthrough in mobile TV, and not only in Switzerland. However, the prospects for the success of mobile TV are uncertain and the potential is overestimated, the "SonntagsZeitung" continues. According to a survey conducted by "Netzwoche", over 70 percent of those questioned could not imagine watching the World Cup on their cell phones. Most respondents in a German study (University of Bonn/IBM) even rejected mobile TV, as there were sufficient alternatives.