Cox Communications has announced the successful completion of voice calling and HD video streaming over wireless networks using 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology. Cox’s 4G technology and service trials utilise the AWS and 700 MHz spectrum that it acquired at Federal Communication Commission auctions in 2006 and 2008. Cox spent over $550 million for […]

The German state media office will decide by mid-March if mobile TV via the DVB-H standard gets a second chance. An important requirement for a possible re-tender of a 10-year licence is that interested parties confirm their interest in deploying DVB-H to the approval and oversight commission of the media offices (ZAK) before the end […]

Taiwan’s National Communications Commission (NCC) plans to issue Taiwan’s first two mobile TV licences by the end of 2010, one to operate on Channel 35 (596-602MHz) and the other on Channel 36 (602-608MHz). The two licensees will be allowed to choose a mobile TV standard between the Qualcomm's MediaFLO and DVB-H. NCC issued five trial […]

Media Excel, a provider of transcoding solutions for MobileTV and WebTV, is expanding its longstanding relationship with Texas Instruments (TI) and collaborating on a number of initiatives designed to bring high-density, scalable video over IP compression solutions for network-based transcoding to market. The collaboration will build on TI's expanding portfolio of next-generation multicore DSPs and […]

A report by CCS Insight predicts explosive growth for Mobile Broadband across Europe. Despite varying environments across Europe's five major markets, the one common factor is growth, underpinned by HSPA and HSPA+ Mobile Broadband technology. According to CCS the European Mobile Broadband market will see subscriber and revenue numbers nearly double by 2011: Total Mobile […]

FLO TV, a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm, and mophie are teaming to create a series of products that will bring live mobile TV to the iPhone and iPod touch platforms. The products, which are expected to begin shipping in the first half of this year, will bring the FLO TV mobile TV service to […]

Apple has agreed to buy Quattro Wireless, a mobile advertising and publishing company. The move puts Apple in head-to-head competition with Google which just unveiled its new Nexus One phone (see below). Quattro runs advertising networks for smartphone applications and for the mobile Web. Its advertisers roster include Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola, Netflix and Disney. […]

Google has said it is defending its online advertising empire with the launch of its own brand mobile phone. It said the Nexus One represented the next frontier in the company’s $20bn core business – selling advertising through search.

France's mobile phone market is set for a shake-up after ARCEP, the country's telecoms regulator, awarded a fourth licence to broadband operator Free. Orange, SFR and Bouygues Telecom, are the three incumbent operators in what is one of Europe's least competitive markets. Free, which is owned by French telcop Illiad, has vowed to halve the […]

Consumer demand for mobile TV and VOD is being driven by the ability of smartphones to deliver personalised and targeted content that can be accessed immediately. An Olswang ‘Digital Convergence’ Survey of UK consumers has revealed that ownership of an iPhone encouraged 37 per cent of users to substitute their home TV viewing by watching […]