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Mobile TV

Successful DVB-SH trial in Italy

The first DVB-SH trial launched in Turin by the Italian broadcaster RAI, the mobile operator 3 Italia, Alcatel-Lucent and Eutelsat has shown promising results. The initial results of the trial demonstrated the high reception performances of the new technology for mobile TV on commercial terminals. Once fully deployed, this solution will capture mobile TV signals […]

February 19, 2009

MobiTV subs milestone

MobiTV has surpassed six million subscribers on its managed mobile media service. Available on more than 350 handsets across 20 carrier networks, including AT&T and Alltel in the US, MobiTV attributes its growth to increasing consumer demand for TV on mobile devices, the proliferation of smart phones and a growing trend toward bundling TV and […]

February 19, 2009

Mobile call to record TV programmes

From David Del Valle in Madrid Spain’s Regional TV channel TV3 is launching a service that allows viewers to record its programmes from anywhere through a mobile phone call. Developed by CCRTV Interactiva and Orange, the service is available to all viewers through the portal Orange Cat. To use the service, users must download an […]

February 19, 2009

Canal+ claims unfair competition from Orange

Canal+ has filed a complaint with French antitrust authorities against France Telecom’s Orange, accusing the carrier of unfair competition in bundling its Internet, telephone and other services to attract customers. The complaint, filed with France’s Autorite de la Competition, accuses Orange of taking advantage of its control over the broadband market by tying its cable […]

February 18, 2009

ETSI approves FLO interface

The FLO Forum is pleased by the decision of the Joint Technical Committee (JTC) Broadcast to publish ETSI TS 102 589, "Forward Link Only Air Interface; Specification for Terrestrial Mobile; Multimedia Multicast." JTC Broadcast is a collaborative working group of EBU (European Broadcasting Union), CENELEC (European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization), and ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards […]

February 13, 2009

PacketVideo and Nagravision enable mobile TVs

Nagravision and PacketVideo, the software innovator powering the global mobile multimedia services, have introduced the first conditional access enabled version of the Telly device. Created by PV and combined with Nagravision's Mobile TV solution, Telly turns iPhones, WiFi-enabled phones, portable media players and PCs into mobile television sets. The product seamlessly decodes broadcast signals and […]

February 13, 2009

Star Mandarin Mobile in Australia

Star, the pay-TV operator, has launched Star Mandarin Mobile in partnership with digital media publisher News Digital Media and MNO 3 Australia. Star Mandarin Mobile is Australia's first Chinese language subscription based mobile TV service and is available to 3 mobile users at A$1 a day or A$4 a month. To start, the service features […]

February 13, 2009

Half a billion mobile TV viewers in 2013

The approaching switchover to all-digital television in the US and other major countries will create an unprecedented opportunity for the mobile TV market, according to a study from ABI Research. While mobile broadcast TV was pioneered in Japan and South Korea, following the switchover traditional and mobile TV broadcasters and cellular operators in many regions […]

February 12, 2009

Growth in mobile traffic forecast

Cisco has released the results of a Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Mobile Forecast for 2008-2013, providing findings on a variety of IP networking trends driven largely by the increased use of mobile broadband applications. The Cisco VNI Mobile Forecast projects global mobile traffic to increase 66-fold between 2008 and 2013 with a compound annual […]

February 12, 2009

QuickPlay sees mobile TV usage rise

QuickPlay Media, provider of mobile TV and video solutions has unveiled the findings of its latest quarterly consumer consumption analysis. The results aggregate usage statistics from 15 representative QuickPlay-powered services over the fourth quarter of 2008 demonstrate that mobile users continue to show tremendous interest in streaming and downloading mobile TV and video content. The […]

February 6, 2009