Barely a week after I wrote my last post about DVB-H devices, and the battle they face with the “newcomer” DVB-T devices, another story appears with an opinion – this it’s FOR DVB-H. Silicon.com quotes a Frost & Sullivan report, which says that DVB-H will become the standard for Mobile broadcasting by 2011. By 2011,…
Qatar Telecom and NSN agree on DVB-H OMA BCAST SCP (Mobile TV)!
Bring on the Mobile TV deployments I say! Qatar Telecom and Nokia-Siemens Networks (NSN) have agreed on the deployment of a DVB-H OMA BCast Smart Card Profile (SCP) Mobile TV platform – which apparently is claimed will be the first commercially-ready implementation. As you may know OMA BCAST SCP is the variant of DVB-H that…
3 Italia and Alcatel Lucent build out Mobile TV in Italy
Alcatel-Lucent (AlcaLu) has signed an equipment and services contract with 3 Italia, for the expansion and optimisation of it’s Mobile TV broadcast network in Italy. The solution is based on DVB-H terrestrial transmitters (as oppose to the satellite-based DVB-SH), and will allow 3 to increase the indoor and outdoor coverage. Interestingly, the AlcaLu solution supports…
KPN DVB-H Mobile TV has 10K subs
Following on from my previous post about the service launch of DVB-H Mobile TV, Dutch operator KPN has announced the connection of 10,000 mobile tv subs. Subscribers have unlimited access to ten TV channels on their mobile phones via DVB-H technology. They can choose one of three handsets: the Nokia N96, the Samsung SGH-P960 and…
Hungary gets going with digital and mobile TV
Antenna Hungaria has won DTT (Digital Terrestrial TV) and Digital Radio rights for Hungary, it has been announced. Initial transmissions are scheduled to start in December to approximately 60% of the nation, with most signals being FTA (Free-to-air). Great, I hear you say, but what about the Mobile TV? Well: The mobile television (DVB-H) service…
Longcheer Holding does Mobile TV…in a slightly different way
Remember I mentioned about Mobile TV at IBC 2008 the other day? Well read on, and expect to see a lot more of these types of announcements over the next 2 weeks or so….. Longcheer Holdings (a Chinese Mobile handset design house) has apparently selected Newport Nedia to provide middleware for multiple Mobile TV variant…
KPN launches Mobile TV with NSN tech
Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) has launched a 10-channel DVB-H service in the Netherlands, for Mobile Operator KPN. More channels are expected in the future, said KPN. For right now though, that’s a nice offering – and it syncs up very nicely indeed with the launch of the N96 – arguably one of the few stylish…
S. Africa Mobile TV licences by Q1 2009
South Africa – the Department of Communications has announced it wants Mobile TV, in the DVB-H format, licensed for SA by end of Q1 2009. Apparently there has thus far been delay due to the finalising of the policy – and that has been slowed because of cross-media ownership issues. The Electronic Communications Act imposes…
The case for terrestrial TV tuners in Mobile devices
I just read an interesting article by Peter Svensson on statesman.com. He is making the point that a Chinese Mobile device with a terrestrial TV tuner can tune in to TV in the US (albeit analog) for free, whereas US-sold phones can’t. Ironically, the TV chip in the Chinese device (by ZTE) is from a…
NDS chosen to power SMM for IPTV and Mobile TV in Russia
Sistema Mass Media (SMM) has chosen a suite of NDS technologies to secure and manage both its IPTV and mobile TV platforms – resulting in the delivery of a true convergence play for it’s subscriber services. NDS’s Unified Headend(TM) will cover set-top boxes, PCs, and a variety of Mobile devices. The NDS Unified Headend(TM) integrates…