Designing a Business Model for Mobile TV on Mobile Devices

Book excerpt: Master's Thesis from the year 2010 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: B, Aalborg University (CMI, Copenhagen Institute of Technology,), course: Masters degree in Information Communication Technology, language: English, abstract: The author studied the business model that will be suitable for deploying Mobile TV as a service to the user/customer, the market players and the providers involved in rolling out such as service. The research which was carried out in this project included finding a suitable business model to drive this service and also looking at the various technologies that is backing the mobile TV service. In order to know what pertains in Ghana and that of the outside world, the author conducted a small survey to seek the views of future and present customers of this service. Their responses were not too different from what have been reported by other surveys and analysts. During the project there was evidence that the operators and providers will need clearly defined roles in order for each member to be committed to the project and also to sustain the service. Despite the challenges outlined by experts in the industry, there is light at the end of the tunnel for Mobile TV service which is yet to be seen. The Europeans, the Americans and the Asians have already taken lead in this service and are constantly researching to make the service affordable, available, and interactive as possible and innovated than the traditional TV.