After those series of announcements by the EU that DVB-H was the way to go for Mobile TV (check one we posted about here), it has now decided that actually multiple standards might be better than just one TV tech:
Mobile Europe points out that last week’s EU statement said: “Aspects related to interoperability and roaming for mobile TV should be given due consideration in light of the wireless nature of the services”, a contrast with comments by Commissioner Viviane Reding in March, that said: “For mobile TV to take off in Europe, there must first be certainty about the technology.”
Great… well that’s really going to help speed things along! Joking aside though, multiple standards may just end up the way things are going anyway, because whether a service can make money (usually calculated through it’s business model) is often decided by a range of factors, several of which might be unique to the region in question. I bet we’ll see “Mobile TV” continue in it’s fragmented manner for the foreseeable future….
[Via: rethink-wireless.com]