But figures from Nielsen stress that 50 per cent of mobile users still don't have video-enabled handsets
A study from Nielsen has revealed a somewhat mixed picture of the US mobile video market.
On the one hand the research says that the market is experiencing its best year ever, with 10 million active users in 2008 and 15.3 million active users in 2Q09 - that's equivalent to seven per cent of total mobile subscribers.
The downside is that only 52 per cent of US mobile users have handsets capable of access mobile video service (slightly better than 62 per cent two years ago).
Furthermore, user satisfaction with mobile video services was down over the last year (74 per cent in Q208 to 65 per cent in Q209), despite significant investment in new infrastructure by operators.
Despite that, a Nielsen blog post says mobile video should be seen with cautious optimism, venturing that its evolution may well be more like that of PVRs than MP3 players - i.e. gradual, linear adoption.
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