4. Will T-DMB become a major service?
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SDMB(Satellite DMB) has 540,000 subscribers in May this year and not a scale of economics. TDMB(Terrestrial DMB) service is started 6 months later and it’s device is increasing fast. It is expected that TDMB service will retard the growth of SDMB service by the following reasons appealing customer.
1)TDMB is free.
2)TDMB is supported by main public broadcaster-KBS,MBC and SBS
3)TDMB device is increasing faster-Industry expects 2 million for TDMB and 1 million for SDMB in accumulating count at the end of this year.
However, TDMB has a big weak point, which is that there is no business model for profits now. At now, it is not sure that TDMB service will succeed.