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The number of global mobile broadcast TV subscribers will grow from 4.4 million today to an estimated 155.6 million by the end of 2012, according to new report by independent market analyst Datamonitor. That’s a compounded annual growth rate of 66.2%. The Asia-Pacific region is expected to have 76.3 million subscribers by then, Europe an estimated 42.7 million subscribers and the U.S. a subscriber base of 35.6 million. However lack of interoperability and fragmentation of content-bearing technologies may slow mass-adoption.

AOL’s Advertising.com subsidiary Third Screen Media is teaming with mobile game provider Hovr to sell, manage, and deliver ads into its free mobile game applications and communities. The deal will adds a new venue for Third Screen’s TSMI Network of mobile inventory and a way for Hovr to server users with relevant opt-in ads targeted to gamers.

The sun came out for EarthLink’s Philadelphia Wi-Fi network on Thursday even as prospects for its San Francisco
project remain shrouded in fog. (http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/05/24/EarthLink-to-build-Philadelphia-WiFi-network_1.html?source=NLC-WIR&cgd=2007-05-31 5/24)