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Broadcom announced yesterday the BCM2940, a 65 nanometer mobile TV receiver chip which combines a dual-mode demodulator and tuner, and supports both DVB-H and DVB-T. Broadcom claims that the chip reduces power consumption by up to 40% and footprint by up to 30% compared to current solutions. This is Broadcom’s first offering to the mobile TV chip market, which is already dominated by several players including DiBcom, Siano, TI, ADI, Qualcomm, Newport Media and others.

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Broadcom Enters Mobile TV Chip Market

According to sources quoted by RCR Wireless News , AT&T is planning to launch its own MediaFLO-based Mobile Broadcast TV service in the US next week, following Verizon’s launch of the service last March. The service will launch on February 5th, and will include two additional exclusive channels, on top of the 8 basic channels which Verizon also offers. It will feature the LG Vu (CU-920) handset, which is similar to LG’s Prada and Viewty handsets, priced between $200 and $250

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AT&T Mobile TV Rumors

According to a new market research report published by ABI Research , the number of global subscribers to Mobile TV services is expected to reach 462 million by 2012, driven mainly by the expansion of 3G network deployment, and flat-rate pricing plans. ABI Research sees Asia-Pacific as the region with the most prominent growth, expanding from 24 million subscribers in 2007 to more than 260 million in 2012. It is interesting to compare these figures with the recent findings in a report titled “Mobile TV in Asia”, published by the Cable & Satellite Broadcast Association of Asia, as reported in TelevisionPoint .

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ABI Research: 462 Mobile TV Subscribers by 2012

According to ScreenDigest , the number of mobile TV subscribers in France as of December 207 has reached 1.2 million. At the Telecom 2007 conference in Paris, Orange France reported a total of 1 million mobile TV subscribers, while SFR claimed to have 200,000 mobile TV subscribers. ScreenDigest notes that both cellular operators have witnesses a subscriber growth of 40% in the last quarter, driven by the launch of unlimited data, video, TV and music plans.

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French Mobile TV Subscribers Reach 1.2M

According to a new market research report titled “Mobile TV: Business Models and Opportunities” published by Screen Digest , there will be 140M mobile TV subscribers worldwide by 2011, and global revenues will reach 4.4B Euros. However, the report states that in the short term network operators are not expected to make much profit from the mobile TV services. In terms of business models, the report predicts that free to air services, that currently drive customer growth in Asia, will not be popular elsewhere since the business model behind these services is not proven.

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Screen Digest: 140M Mobile TV Subscribers by 2011

The world’s only satellite-based mobile broadcast TV service is in deep trouble. According to an article in the Korea Times , TU Media which operates the S-DMB service in Korea has accumulated a debt that will reach 270 Billion Won (about $270M) by the end of this year.

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Korea’s Satellite Mobile TV Calls for Help

According to a new market research report published by Telecom Trends International , the number of global mobile TV users will grow from 20 million today to over 2 billion by 2013. As far as I recall, this is the highest subscriber number forecast published by a market research firm to date

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Mobile TV Subscriber Forecast Breaks 2B Mark

Mobile TV has always been a controversial issue. The big players who sell handsets, network equipment and mobile services, keep taking the optimistic side, and pushing the analysts in that direction. On the other hand, there are always people who ask “Who would like to view TV on a a tiny screen, and pay for it?”.

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The Ups and Downs of Mobile TV

“BT can confirm that following a review of its wholesale solutions, the decision has been made not to continue with the Movio service,” a statement from the company said on Thursday. “BT is discussing the timescale for the closure of the service with Virgin Mobile. While the feedback from users on the service has been complimentary, Movio sales have been slower than originally expected mainly due to a lack of compatible devices from the big brands.

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BT ditches mobile TV service -

Telecoms commissioner Viviane Reding has called on member states to roll out services using the DVB-H standard “as quickly as possible”. Some key players have questioned why Brussels rather than the market is deciding what the standard should be. The Flo Forum says: Regarding FLO technology, “recent independent trials of FLO technology in the UK involving several EU-based FLO Forum members highlighted significant technical advantages, which lead to savings on infrastructure spending

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EU backs standard for mobile TV

Rok is about to take the mobile TV market by storm.It has built up a technical capability with 43 patents applied for to be able to provide reasonable quality TV services to a mobile handset (some at 24 fps) using GPRS, EDGE, Wi-Fi and upcoming mobile technologies. Its mobile client supports Symbian, Java and Windows 5 with streamed video content which it also aggregates and supplies to mobile operators. It has three routes to market: Complete turnkey white label service to operators.

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ROK is Rolling

Serveral announcements made this week at CommunicAsia 2007 and Broadcast Asia 2007 in Singapore signal a wave of upcoming trials and commercial services of mobile broadcast TV in the Asia-Pacific region. MiTV and Nokia announced that they will launch a commercial DVB -H service in Malaysia in the second half of 2007. The infrastructure for the service will be integrated and maintained by Nokia -Siemens Networks, and the first handset to support the service will be the new Nokia N77.

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APAC Mobile Broadcast TV Market Heating Up

Rather than ceding control of the mobile TV market to the nation’s wireless carriers, nine U.S. television broadcast groups have formed an industry alliance called the Open Mobile Video Coalition to speed the development of a mobile variant for digital broadcast TV.

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New broadcast coalition could threaten entrenched mobile TV players :: RCR Wireless News

A survey based on more than 3,000 Japanese consumers howed that while only 41% of respondents said that they intended to use mobile broadcast services, the number doubled to 83% among focus group testers who were able to try out the service.

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Japanese study shows encouraging signs for mobile TV

“Running a High Definition TV application over a Mobile WiMAX Network enabled us to demonstrate the fantastic potential of Mobile WiMAX as a Broadband Access Technology” said Israel Koffman, Runcom’s VP of Marketing; “The collaboration with a leading company in radio technology such as JRC enabled the team to bring OFDMA technology to perform one of its highest records.”

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WIMAX HDTV MOBILE TV JRC and Runcom Completed the Development of Mobile WiMAX Base Station – Assodigitale – Associazione Italiana Operatori Industria

Europe : Mobile network operators in Europe called for more spectrum to be made available for the provision of mobile television, echoing one of the findings in the final report of the European Mobile Broadcasting Council (EMBC), an initiative of the European Commission.

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Spectrum Key To The Development Of Mobile TV In Europe

The Commission unveiled on 9 March a consolidated text of the modernised “Television without Frontiers” Directive. After a first reading in the European Parliament and the Council, there is now broad agreement with the Commission about the future legal framework for Europe’s audiovisual sector.

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"Audiovisual without Frontiers" Directive

TELSTRA says it is no hurry to jump on the mobile television bandwagon just yet, as it adopts a wait-and-see stance to the new broadcasting technology. The standard known as digital video broadcasting handheld (DVB-H) has been tested in a number of markets around the world – including Australia – with commercial services recently launched in Albania, Italy and Vietnam.

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No hurry on mobile TV, says Telstra (, MARCH 07, 2007)

WATCHING programmes on your television set is so last century. Television studios are increasingly using the net to transmit their programmes to viewers on demand. While this is fine when a relatively small number of people are downloading files at different times, if the internet were to transmit live television broadcasts to millions of viewers simultaneously, the sudden demand for bandwidth could create a huge bottleneck.

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Dump the TV set, watch the web instead – tech – 03 March 2007 – New Scientist Tech

MobiTV has smashed through the two million paying subscriber barrier, having doubled its audience in less than 12 months. The US company, which powers mobile TV services for the likes of Sprint, AT&T, 3 and Orange UK, says it can now offer more than a hundred channels across 150 handsets. Since passing the one million subscriber mark in April last year, MobiTV has landed $100 million in VC cash to fund development of WiMAX/DVB-H delivery and interactive advertising models.

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MobiTV passes two million subs