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Honestly, I’ve never been a fan of watching TV shows on your cellphone. I mean what’s the use? I don’t get it. If you go out, you go out! If you want to watch TV, stay home! Portable video games are another matter though but that’s a blog post for another day. 
Well, anyway, here’s some news for the cellphone TV crowd. Soon you’ll be able to watch satellite TV on your mobile phones. Well, if you are in Europe that is. Satellite TV operators like Freesat Fom Sky will soon be able to send out television shows into mobile phones as the EU commission is expected to grant new rights to broadcast such. The recipient of the new rights are Inmarsat and Solaris, a joint venture between Eutelsa and SES-Astra, who will be leading efforts to raise more interest for this new TV technology. But there are some obstacles that they need to hurdle first.
Here’s an excerpt from a report made by Times Online about this.
Broadcasting via satellite removes the cost of investing in a new broadcast network, but pan-European broadcasts could be hampered because most TV rights are sold by territory.
In addition, the threat of legal action from the expected failed bidders, ICO Global and Terrestar of the US, could also hold up broadcasts.
Read the rest of the report here: Satellite TV coming to a mobile near you
These companies are now jockeying to be in a good position for when this thing explodes and becomes more mainstream. In the US, for example, there are indications that more and more people are watching TV on their mobiles as I reported in this TV watching statistics post.
