Wireless carriers to push back on placeshifting market

Edmonds-based research analyst Mike Wolf, currently a principal with ABI Research, issued a report last week that describes a potential future battle between wireless carriers and companies with products such as Slingbox that offer what he calls "placeshifting" technologies. As he puts it, streaming pay-per-view TV from a set-top box over the Internet to other personal mobile devices can become disruptive to mobile operators, who will view it as rogue applications that tie up their cellular networks. Still, his report projects the placeshifting device market to grow to $740 million by 2011.

-posted by Rachel