TWI Interactive Inc. (TWIi) is working with Microsoft Corp. and Vidiator Technology Inc. to offer mobile phone operators a hosted method of delivering video streaming services to customers.
Although mobile phone operators are scrambling to offer video streaming services, they know that there won't be a large revenue stream from the services for up to 18 months, TWIi's Senior International Vice President Max Haot said Thursday.
TWIi has therefore developed the MobileVision service, which offers content management, transcoding, streaming, billing and customer care on a per-download fee basis and lets operators provide video without investing in their own in-house service, Haot said. At a later date, when the market has grown, customers will be able to take the same service in-house and simply pay a license fee for the software, he said.
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