AlcaLu and Telstra open Mobile TV testing facility in Oz

Following on from their testing in Singapore, more AlcaLu news….!

Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) and Telstra have opened a “mobile TV handset testing service centre” in Melbourne, Australia. The facility has been developed to support Telstra’s Mobile Foxtel TV service and will ensure that Alcatel-Lucent’s MiTV application and the Mobile Foxtel service are compatible with and operate smoothly on the handsets that Telstra offers to customers.

Apparently the facility will test up to 100 3G handsets per year to ensure that the typical issues found with complex applications and services and met ahead of time. The testing will also include Streamezoo, who supply a client software app to AlcaLu for MiTV. Whereas as previously testing had been done overseas, it will now be handled locally, and over time the idea is that the service centre can provide testing for other service providers too.

So, a pretty logical step – the best tests are always those that approximate reality the most closely, and therefore where better to test than your own network….!

[Via: Telecom Paper]