Polish Mobile OpCos working together on Mobile TV?
By Ben Robinson on Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 at 3:28 AM PST In Mobile TV, Partnerships
The four Mobile OpCos in Poland are working together on a bid for a DVB-H license. The operators, PTC, P4, Polkomtel, and PTK Centertel will each have a 25% stake in the JV. Apparently “The Office of Electronic Communications” is holding the tender for DVB-H spectrum, with applications to be in by mid-Jan 09.
See, this is how Mobile TV ought to be organised – costs shared across all the Operators, and utilising the cell towers of everyone involved, which sorts out another problem of coverage rapidly too. With the might of all Operators in a country involved, getting handset vendors to provide the right specifications on their handsets becomes easier too.
I’d love to see this example rolled out in other countries…. however, for various reasons I don’t see it happening – the UK for example is voraciously competitive, and the main OpCo’s are desperately trying to differentiate, not converge on a service 
Yah boo.
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Finally as a Polish, I can be proud of my country
lol
Wow… I’m surprised. Usually Poland is so backwards with its regulations (all about the politics) that It’s a nice surprise. My guess though is that the service will be so outrageously priced that not many people will use it. On top of that Polish mentality is “Let’s price it higher so less people will use it” vs “Let’s lower the price so more people will use it and we’ll make even more money”. On top of that the ratio of prepaid vs postpaid subscribers in Poland is much higher (more prepaid) which is a weird trend but we’ll see….maybe for once in a century someone did make a good decision within the wireless industry.
By the way…I’m Polish so I can talk crap
Cheers to Rodak.