TVision Fades to Black, a Sign of Pay TV Uncertainty

摘要

In years to come, T-Mobile's decision to shut down its TVision linear-TV service just five months after launch may be cited as the canary in the coal mine, signaling a more rapid decline for traditional linear pay TV. Yes, there were specific problems. T-Mobile somehow forgot to ask companies like Discovery if it could put its various networks on the lower-priced version of the app (something even the most junior lawyer should have flagged). The fact that MobiTV, which built the underlying platform for the app, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection did not help much either. And of course 5G-fixed 5G to the home, to be exact, the original raison d'etre behind TVision-has yet to materialize in a major way and probably won't any time in the foreseeable future.