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
Verizon Wireless will begin offering mobile television on March 1, according to coverage maps on the carrier’s Web site. No further details were offered, and the maps offered the caveat that mobile TV would be available only in “select markets” on March 1. The maps do not currently show coverage in major markets such as New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Diego or Las Vegas
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Verizon Wireless to launch Vcast Mobile TV March 1
Mobile & Wireless | United Kingdom Mobile operators complete TDtv mobile TV trial in UK Published: Monday 12 February 2007 | 11:09 AM CET Print | Comment | Mail Mobile operators 3UK, Orange, Vodafone and Telefonica have announced the results of a successful joint technical trial of TDtv in Bristol, UK. TDtv is the UMTS TD-CDMA-3GPP Multimedia Broadcast and Multicast Services (MBMS) standard for mobile TV services.
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Mobile operators complete TDtv mobile TV trial in UK
Speaking to Total Telecom at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona on Monday, Qualcomm vice president of business development Omar Javaid said the latest trial showed that MediaFLO has significant advantages over rival mobile TV technology DVB-H. He explained that the physical layer field performance of MediaFLO was measured to be 4.5 dB better than DVB-H. That could mean it is able to offer “twice the effective coverage per transmitter,” than DVB-H, which could reduce rollout costs by 50%, Javaid said
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TBSkyB, Qualcomm complete second UK MediaFLO trial