The Federal Communications Commission (ComCom) in Switzerland has awarded the national licence for DVB-H to Swisscom Broadcast AG. The licensee intends to provide the first mobile phone TV broadcasts during the 2008 European Football Championship, in the host cities of Basle, Berne, Zurich and Genev.
Bluestreak Technology, the developer of the MachBlue platform for mobile phones and digital television, will provide its MachBlue Mobile solution to support KPN’s start of mobile TV by offering MobielTV. The service will be free of charge to early adopting customers until the end of 2007. MachBlue Mobile is a platform for mobile phones that […]
Results from a survey of 2,000 European consumers by market analyst firm Canalys indicate that half have no interest in watching any kind of TV on a mobile phone, even if the service was free. The findings highlight three potentially attractive mobile TV customer segments: The pay-TV subscriber: consumers that take pay-TV services (54 per […]
From Sotires Eleftheriou in Paris The French Government has signed the decree for the technical standard for mobile television, known as TMP (television mobile personnelle) using the DVB-H standard, with complementary coverage via satellite using DVB-SH. The way is now open for a call for candidates to be issued by the end of October. The […]
Europeans’ interest in watching mobile television is tiny, a new study shows. Mobile operators hope that mobile TV could encourage users to spend an extra E5 to 10 a month, compensating for declining revenues from voice calls, but mobile television and video downloads ranked close to the bottom of consumer interest in a Gartner study […]
Axel Technologies, provider of multimedia middleware for mobile devices, and Siano Mobile Silicon, supplier of semiconductor solutions for Mobile Digital TV (MDTV) have launched a comprehensive platform for DVB-H terminals, with record-fast channel switching time of less than 2 seconds. The solution is targeting DVB-H enabled mobile phones, smartphones, laptops, PDAs, pocket TVs, PMPs and […]
Mobile phone network provider Verizon Wireless is launching a mobile TV service in the US that will see new shows from CBS, NBC and Fox debut on phones at the same time as they air on TV. More than 10 new shows from CBS, NBC and Fox will debut on the V Cast Mobile service […]
Worldwide annual consumer spending on mobile broadcast TV services is expected to exceed $6.6 billion (E4.7bn) by 2012, according to a new report from Juniper Research. It predicts 120 million mobile users in more than 40 countries are to receive broadcast TV services by 2012, compared to less than 12 million in 2007, with DVB-H […]
The Indian telecom regulator TRAI has initiated a consultation process to seek operators' views before issuing guidelines for mobile TV services. The Government will also issue a regulatory framework for mobile TV. Based on comments from the industry, Trai will issue recommendations on issues relating to mobile television services. The guidelines will be on international […]
Apple and O2 have confirmed that the iPhone will launch in the UK on November 9 with O2 as its exclusive carrier. O2 customers will be able to get their hands on an iPhone for £269 (E384) – approximately £69 more than in the US. O2 will be offering unlimited data usage (2.5G, EDGE) to […]