South Korea provided the perfect testing ground for mobile-television delivery systems and business models: free versus pay and terrestrial versus satellite. By February 2008, the six-channel free terrestrial T-DMB had around 10 million customers and the 19-channel TU Media pay-satellite service had only 1.3 million customers, far short of the three million subscribers it needs to break even.
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