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Originally Posted by m419
Virgin Mobile used to provide Mobile TV operated by BT Movio, T-Mobile didnt have anything to do with that so what makes you think T-Mobile can prevent Virgin launching something like Web and Walk???
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because unlike Vodafone TV and TV on 3 which are IPTV services, the BT Movio service didn't run over the mobile network it was a DAB technology. So T-Mobile wouldn't have seen any increased data costs, wouldn't have to invest in new kit etc. So they couldn't object.
This was also the reason why it got cancelled. BT basically chose the wrong technology.
Europe have decided on DVB-H for mobile TV. If BT had also chose this I would expect that Virgin Mobile TV would still have been running.
If all Virgin mobile customers could have 'unlimited' mobile data, however, then T-Mobile would have to invest further in bandwidth, which I doubt they wish to do.