mocoNews reports that Orange and 3 content supplier MobiTV is pulling out of the UK. According to a quote from New Media Age the company has, ‘closed down its aggregation service with 3 and will no longer provide its downloadable TV Java application to Orange.’
With mobile TV seemingly on the cusp of getting quite big, quite quickly, this seems a slightly odd move - especially with mocoNews also recently reporting that MobiTV seemed to be doing pretty well, passing the two-million subscriber mark. Presumably most of those subs are in the US, and the company has decided to focus its effort on that market for the time being.
MobiTV’s US roster of channels includes MSNBC, CNN, FOX News Channel, Fox Sports, ESPN, CNBC, and CSPAN, so there’s now presumably quite a large America-shaped hole in Orange and 3’s channel line-up.
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