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Asia - Electronic
Arts eyes Asian growth
Source: Channel NewsAsia,
7 March 2008
Video game
producer Electronic Arts (EA) is aiming for a bigger slice of the
video and mobile game market in Asia-Pacific (APac). Its latest
partnership is with Singapore-based IAHGames to operate the popular
online football video game FIFA Online 2 to tap into the 20 million
strong Southeast Asian online gaming market. EA also plans to grow
its online game development arm in its regional HQ in Singapore to
match production in its Korean studios.
Besides online gaming, EA also wants a
bigger market grab in the mobile game segment - a lucrative one that
could be worth US$4.5 billion in APac by 2010. EA will be
aggressively pursuing the segment in Asia.
China - Digital TV user
base increases by 92.4% in 2007
Source: China
Telecom Newswire, 7 March 2008
China's digital TV user base increased by
13.05 million households, or 92.4% year-on-year, to 27.19 million
households. According to CCID Consulting, 12.05 million were cable
digital TV users and the remaining 1 million used satellite,
terrestrial or IPTV digital technology. By the end of 2007, there
were 143 million traditional cable TV subscribers in China. The
large scale of the cable TV market helped to push up the number of
cable digital TV subscribers.
CCID Consulting predicts that the number of
households that have cable digital TV will reach 39.68 million by
the end of 2008, and by 2012, there will be 123.48 million
households with cable digital TV, with about 44 million households
still using traditional cable.
Singapore -
MDA awards first niche TV licence to VeeV
Source:
Channel NewsAsia, 6 March 2008
The Media Development Authority of
Singapore (MDA) has issued the first Niche Subscription TV Licence
to VeeV Interactive Pte Ltd. The Niche Subscription TV Licence is
part of a two-tier licence framework MDA introduced in 2007 to
facilitate the growth of Internet Protocol Television (IPTV)
services in Singapore by offering operators greater flexibility to
roll out services for different market segments.
The other
licence category is the Nationwide Subscription TV Licence, which
caters to operators targeting the mass market. The first nationwide
IPTV licence was awarded to SingNet Pte Ltd in January 2007 for its
mioTV service.
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