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Polish Mobile OpCos working together on Mobile TV?

Categories: Mobile TV, Partnerships
By: , IntoMobile
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 at 3:28 AM

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.

[Story via: telegeography.com / Image via: Wikipedia]

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Ben is a 10+ year veteran of the Mobile industry – starting his career when SMS was a still a relatively new concept for most people (!), he has now consulted on everything from bleeding-edge Mobile content, to the next-gen accessories you might view it on. As a result he has a broad and deep knowledge in numerous areas of Mobile – from network operators to device vendors, to infrastructure and middleware vendors (not to mention content delivery) – and has worked for companies in all of these areas! He is based in the UK, a hotbed of activity for mobile, and recently became a father for the second time – as oppose to in his younger years when he was happy spend time tweaking all manner of mobile devices to 'nth' degree, he now looks for services and hardware that provide the most efficient, compact, and reliable improvements to his already manic life! It’s his opinion that Mobile solutions should be there to help to make your life better – if a particular solution (be it service or device) isn’t doing this, he believes you need to ask the very important question of why you continue to use it... His focus at IntoMobile is mainly on Mobile content, services, and infrastructure, particularly as regards the UK market – and with the occasional look at devices. Additionally, using his extensive experience in the industry, he will provide commentary on the industry at large, with regular (and hopefully thought-provoking) articles.

  • rodak69

    Finally as a Polish, I can be proud of my country ;-) lol

  • Maciek

    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.