Mobile Video in a Race to Zero?

Everyone knows video usage — especially mobile video usage — is on the rise. Bigger pipes? Check. Optimized devices? Yup. More content offerings? Mais oui. And now, it looks like it’ll be nice and cheap, too.

Leap Wireless is offering the low, low price of five bucks per month for unlimited mobile video offerings. That’s throwing down the gauntlet to mobile video services from MobiTV and MediaFLO, favored by the Tier1s.

On the other hand, maybe it’s not the opening salvo to price-compete mobile video into oblivion, when you consider the Leap service consists of one- to four-minute-long streamed video clips of music, sports, entertainment and animation. Full-length live TV it is not.

Snackable time-wasting just might not be worth as much.

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