Nokia sells its Mobile Broadcast unit to…Wipro

An earthquake in the Mobile TV broadcasting happened today:

Nokia confirmed to Reuters today that it has sold its enterprise-focused mobile TV unit to India-based Wipro. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Although mobile TV has struggled to take off, the sale of the unit does not necessarily mean that the world’s largest handset-maker has become uninterested in the sector. A Nokia spokesperson told Reuters: “We wanted to focus on the consumer side of things, the mobile TV client in the devices, rather than on the business-to-business side.” The Mobile Broadcast Solutions unit had about 40 employees was more focused on the back-end. It created software and hardware which enabled the mobile TV technology on the phone to search for and access a broadcasting network.

To me, this move means:

• end of the battle for mobile TV broadcasting from an handset perspective
  
• the rising of mobile (web) TV i.e mainly through 3G, wifi
• an open space for broadcasting TV to mobile with ATSC M/H, DVB-T/H; ISDB-T/M; DVB-SH; CMMB…
• maybe the end of mediFLO or the sell of FLO division of QUALCOMM to another indian IT supplier…

I do not get why WiPRO would be interested in that division…unless they only looking at getting skills in Broadcasting in general?