Viewing data revealed by Eurosport has shown that audience ratings for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games broke all-time online records with particular strong mobile platform results.

IT and telecoms analyst ABI Research believes that the phoney war has ended in the battle to be the de facto standard for the next generation of wireless networks with WiMAX gaining traction over a slowly emerging LTE.

Service Providers and Media Companies stand to make massive gains in the onset of what research firm In-Stat is calling a digital entertainment revolution where consumers take increased control of how they use media and entertainment devices.

Preliminary data for TV viewing patterns for the Winter Olympics in Vancouver has revealed that mobile viewing has reached record highs for any Olympics.

Survey data from the Horowitz Associates (HA) annual Broadband Content and Services (BCS) survey of 800 Internet users has found that 44% of people watch professionally made TV content at least once monthly, including on mobile platforms.

Even though more countries started commercial mobile broadcast TV services in 2009, a lack of viable business models, low device variety and slow licensing processes are hampering market development according to the most recent market round-up by bmcoforum.

Mobile video specialist MobiTV has reported that mobile access to live events, breaking news and entertainment have driven a 49% increase in viewing minutes for its mobile TV and video on demand services on a daily basis compared to a year ago.

Driven by the growing consumer demand for video content on an anytime, anywhere basis, the global mobile satellite TV market is projected to reach $11 billion by 2015, according to a new report by Global Industry Analysts (GIA).

Even though it revealed a cooling in optimism, the latest Business Confidence Index (BCI) from the Mobile Entertainment Forum is projecting a $36 billion mobile media industry for 2010.

QuickPlay Media's now traditional quarterly survey of its mobile TV and video users has revealed increases in average number of downloads per user and average viewing time per stream.