Mobile TV is doing big things in France, if you believe the numbers being touted about. As I posted before, Orange announced in Dec07 that they had 1m Moby TV subs. SFR claimed to have 350K. Well now, Canal Plus claims it has more than 250K! The total from these stats apparently represents a…
Gorillabox and WRN partner on Mobile TV services
Gorillabox has announced it is partnering with WRN to provide Streaming video Mobile TV services to media companies. Gorillabox is making the G-Box platform available to WRN’s client, inlcuding notable broadcasters such as Virgin Radio and Voice of America, amongst others. The content and platform will be Gorillabox’s responsiblity, whereas WRN will handle the marketing…
Viaccess and Discretix announce the fully interoperable mobile TV solution
The European leader in conditional access Viaccess and a leading provider of embedded security solutions for mobile devices and flash memory Discretix recently announced an end-to-end mobile TV security solution, based on the OMA BCAST SmartCard Profile standard. The joint offering ensures full interoperability between the Viaccess purple-TV conditional access system and the Discretix Multi-Scheme…
PacketVideo Mobile Broadcast Receiver: DVB-H to WiFi
PacketVideo used MWC to launch their Mobile Broadcast Receiver Product – which is a smallish device that receives DVB-H signals, and then streams them out over WiFi – clever! DVB-H is a component of the constantly hot news that is Mobile TV, and the fact that companies are looking to deliver these “DVB-H dongles”, shows…
ROK announces FreeBe TV Advertisers
ROK Entertainment Group has revealed that Cadbury Creme Egg, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment ‘24’ and Codemasters are the first brands for its free mobile TV service, FreeBe TV. For those who don’t know, FreeBe TV is subscription-free (hence the name I woud imagine), multi-channel Mobile TV, that can be streamed (unicast) over 2.5G/3G/WiFi. Interestingly,…
3 Italia wins Gold at Future Mobile Awards
3 Italia have been selected by Juniper Research as winners of the Mobile TV category at this year’s Future Mobile Awards. Here’s the crunch-data: ARPU for DVB-H subscribers is apparently 60% higher than for the market average in Italy – those are some GOOD numbers, and lend weight and credence to the assertion that Mobile…
Ofcom agrees to sell off public radio spectrum
Ofcom has given the go-ahead for public bodies to “sell” (share, trade, or release) off parts of the spectrum that are assigned to them, but that they don’t need. The market is potentially worth up to £20bn! Apparently Public bodies use up around half the spectrum below 15GHz, which is the most sought-after. The Elephant…
Mobile TV “distant dream” in India, says OnMobile CEO
Commentary: Reading an interview with Arvind Rao (who is the CEO of OnMobile) on Telecom Tiger, he states that he is not very bullish about Mobile TV in the short-term, because of the investment required, the small screens involved, and also the number of handsets that support it. This actually is one of the few…
Pick a Mobile TV standard – generate $2bn!
Did I say “one beeeeleeeeon dollarrrs”?! No, actually I said Two. Billion. Yep, that’s the amount of annual revenue that apparently could be generated, if a Mobile/Handheld (or M/H for those in the know) standard was chosen quickly, according to the NAB technology advocacy program.The report concludes that new M/H DTV (Mobile/Handheld Digital Television) services…
Update: ‘cell’ is available on all UK networks!
Update: Yesterday you may have read my story about O2 subs being able to access the new ‘cell’ TV series, made exclusively for Mobile. I also told you that it’s looking pretty darn good indeed, with great production quality, and that it’s something you should check out -well now, more of you can! Sean, the…