In a not-too-surprising, but nonetheless amazing, move by Germany’s largest telecom, Deutsche Telekom has snatched up the entire DVB-H spectrum in Germany. Following the EU’s recent DVB-H standardization, Germany has awarded the country’s entire mobile TV (DVB-H) spectrum to T-Mobile Germany’s parent company, Deutsche Telekom.
Reuters reports that Deutsche Telekom’s T-Systems unit is now the proud owner of all of Germany’s DVB-H licenses, and is expected to start building out the national DVB-H network in early 2008. T-Systems has already been running DVB-H trials in Berlin, so they’ve got something of a head start on DVB-H network deployment. And, with an ambitious 90% coverage goal set for 2015, they’re going to need all that in-the-field experience.
Whether or not Europeans are interested in mobile TV, Deutsche Telekom’s move might just be the jump-start the EU needs for widespread DVB-H adoption.
[Via: MocoNews]