Tuesday, November 28, 2006

YouTube Goes Mobile

YouTube has hooked up with erizon to deliver videos to mobile phones. Verizon Wireless customers will be able to access a "sampling" of YouTube videos from their mobile phones for a limited time. VCast customers who pay $15 a month for the service will get access to some of the most popular videos

This is the first test that could reveal Google's long term strategy for mobile video content. Limiting the test to paying customers could indicate that Google is favoring a pay-for instead of ad-supported model.

The other problem is bandwidth. Even if just a small fraction of the YouTube audience pays for only the bits that are delivered to their phones, the mobile networks could experience a severe bandwidth crunch.

So now in addition to the people who have arguments on their phones and disrupt the public, we'll also have people guffawing loudly at videos of idiots falling down or otherwise harming themselves. All the more reason to stay at home.

By John Gartner at 01:24 PM | Comments (0)

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