Youtube goes to the mobile for everyone.
Using the mobile to access the Internet is increasing all across the world. All the web services providers are 
exploring the possibilities to give access to their services via the mobile which is fortunately possible in most cases. There is a lot of activity in the development centers of the industry leaders Google, Yahoo and Microsoft to take their services online and I must say that at this point of time Yahoo has been able to do much better than their competition in fact this is the only positive that has happened for them in the recent past.
Accessing video online and online TV was something that could not be imagined a couple of years back but today we see a whole lot of services that offer video sharing and hosting (and they are free) and also there has been a spurt of growth of online television as well which, it seems, has a great future. All this also means that bandwidth costs to the customer have gone down and more bandwidth is available.
Slowly the technology is moving to the next stage and that is mobile access to videos. YouTube who is an industry leader as far as video sharing and hosting is concerned, is one of the first to step into this field. Until recently, YouTube Mobile was available only for Verizon subscribers — but now, it’s free for anyone who can afford a GPRS plan which allows a lot of data download anywhere in the world! The content that is provided under this service is optimized for mobile devices and the users can also upload videos through MMS. There has been a lot of complaints from US users where the most user friendly mobile carrier as far as charges are concerned, Helious, is charging $6 per month for accessing Youtube. Personally I think it is fair because the service allows you to connect to other video sharing services, in the near future the subscribers will have access to an application which will allow additional functionality when watching videos online and also full protection against viruses. The traffic on the GPRS pipes would surely increase and therefore users in other countries should expect something similar as well.
Apple has also made the announcement that their Iphones which are due to be launched on June 29th will support Youtube. Further YouTube is now available as a channel on AppleTV. Those who thought that video sharing and hosting was a fad and would die soon would realize from this that the fad is here to stay.
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