Perhaps stating the obvious, Nokia said on Friday its push to promote mobile television broadcasting has not succeeded as the world's top cellphone maker had hoped, Reuters reports.

"It's a bit in a turmoil," Niklas Savander, head of Nokia's Internet services, told a conference in Helsinki.

The article said that Nokia has been for years promoting television broadcasts to cellphones and its digital video broadcasting handheld (DVB-H) technology won EU support earlier this year, but only a few operators in Europe have opened any TV broadcasting services.

"We have seen that there are multiple segments who are not interested in the broadcasting, but rather in downloads. Roll out is slower than also we anticipated a couple of years ago," Savander said. This is all in contrast to streamed, 3G mobile TV such as the MobiTV-powered Sprint TV service, which works on current handsets but is subject to buffering, pixelated video, and dropped frames.