Monday, June 18, 2007

The Mobile TV users surpass 6-millions in Korea



The Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) users surpassed 6-million. This figure means 1.3 out of 10 Koreans has DMB player.

According to the survey announced on June 14th by the Ministry of information and Communication, after DMB service started on 2005, the number of TDMB players sold is 5.3 million and the subscribers of SDMB service is 1.1 million. That means total users of DMB service reaches about 6.5 million during just 2 years.

The number of Terrestrial DMB (TDMB) players sold, which is consisted of 2.4 million (44.2%) in Navigation, 2.1 million (38.5%) in Mobile phone and 1 million (17.3%) in PMP and USB, was almost doubled this year.

The subscribers of Satellite DMB (SDMB) players is consisted of 1.1 million (96%) in Mobile phone and 40 thousand (4%) in Navigation.

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