Nokia sells enterprise Mobile TV business unit
By Ben Robinson on Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 at 3:54 PM PST In Mobile TV, Nokia
According to the EE Times and Reuters, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has sold it’s enterprise Mobile TV BU (business unit) to Wipro. Apparently the BU had about 40 employees, who were focused on creating both hardware and softtware to enable the mobile device to access the broadcasting network.
Interesting eh? I wonder, if in this small piece of news, we can see the start of the last gasps for Moby TV in the current broadcast mode. Unfortunately it hasn’t really taken off in a big way, with a lack of solid business cases, and huge buildout costs. With 3.75G and 4G networks just round the corner, its quickly becoming possible to push more and more data round the ’standard’ network, rather than worrying about another wireless network that is just for TV.
4G should definitely mean good-quality streaming to mobiles, and even HSPA+ (3.75G in my mind) has some impressive data rates – and I think these are going to edge out the likes of DVB-H and co. Time will tell, however.
[Original story via: EETimes via: Reuters]
Could this mean that Nokia re finaly saying good bye to DVB-H? It was only relativley recantley that they declared that they would look to include T-DMB in their hand sets when the technology had reached critical mas in Europe, – so could this be the critical pre cursor?
Time will tell…..