News Industry a 'No Show' at Wireless Show

Many Many North American media companies plans to deliver news via mobile phones, yet none are exhibiting or on the presentations program at CTIA Wireless 2004> in Atlanta, which with more than 70,000 attendees claims to be ‘the world’s largest conference of the wireless industry’ (despite being only one-third the size of a similar conference held earlier this year in Cannes). Hollywood entertainment companies are well represented, both as presenters and exhibitors, here at the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association’s annual conference. They know better than to wait for the wireless industry to court them. Yet only Stats, Inc., a sports scores company that’s exhibiting, might be considered a ‘news’ company. These are some of the reasons why ‘content’ means entertainment, not news, to North American wireless companies and their subscribers.

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Since 1996, the media business consulting firm of Digital Deliverance has provided publishers and broadcasters on four continents with strategic reviews and advice about how to profitably adapt to the epochal changes that computer-mediated technologies have wrought on the media environment and their industries.

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