EU decides not to implement Mobile TV tax
By Ben Robinson on Sunday, July 12th, 2009 at 5:58 AM PST In Mobile TV
Content to Mobile is reporting that the EU has dropped plans to introduce a tax on handsets that are capable of receiving video.
Apparently moves were afoot last year to add a 14% tax on devices that included a TV receiver. However, pressure from the big handset vendors seems to have quelled this move.
That’s got to be a good move, surely – Mobile TV really hasn’t been the wildfire success that it was hoped to be, and I think this tax could potentially have been the death knell – Mobile TV has now earned a short reprieve, in my opinion – lets see what it can do in the next 18 months….
[Via: Content 2 Mobile]
If they use DVB-H its pretty much a non starter as whole blocks of spectrum are needed, DMB can use smaller blocks and piggyback off the existing DAB infrastructure. But the EU backs DVB-H!