One year ago, South Korean media hyped the launch of a ground-based mobile broadcasting service that allows people to watch TV on mobile phones and other personal devices while in motion.
Industry experts also jumped on the bandwagon, churning out rosy forecasts that terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting (T-DMB) would provide a new growth engine for local telecom companies, including mobile handset manufacturers.
A year later, however, the brouhaha is giving way to mounting pessimism as T-DMB service providers are struggling to labor through poor earnings and intensifying competition from satellite DMB (S-DMB) launched about half a year earlier.
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