New telecoms satellite successfully launched; DVB-SH mobile TV coming to U.S. in 2009
By Dusan Belic on Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 at 2:48 AM PST In Mobile TV
A company called ICO Global Communications launched a new $500m telecoms satellite to bring DVB-SH mobile TV to the U.S. Apparently, the new satellite will be able to deal with between ten and fifteen simultaneous streams and is powerful enough to require no dish in order to broadcast.
The advantage over terrestrial mobile TV standards is obvious — a single satellite can provide nationwide coverage. Not that compatible devices can be purchased at the moment, but the infrastructure (i.e. satellite) is now on place and now it’s up to other members of DVB-SH ecosystem to build new or update existing devices to sing along DVB-SH. Last, but not the least, mobile operators should also slowly start preparing for the upcoming (r)evolution and that will probably be the trickiest part, as some of them like Verizon (NYSE: VZ) and AT&T (NYSE: T) already have their mobile TV offerings in place. We’ll see where this goes…
As a reminder, Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) alongside 3 Italia and RAI are in the midst of DVB-SH trial that started last year.
[Via: PhoneMag]
