ITV has revealed its first made-for-mobile production, a celebrity interview show. 'The Hot Desk' will be free to viewers and funded through sponsorship.

UDcast, provider of Mobile TV infrastructure solutions and satellite based enterprise equipment, has been selected by Harris to supply DVB-H headends for Harris’ range of Atlas DVB-H Mobile TV transmitters. UDcast will provide its DVB-H IP Encapsulators, Network Managers and monitoring equipment. Harris transmitters will also be fully interoperable with UDcast’s iSpicer to enable regionalisation […]

Disney plans to launch mobile phone services in Japan early next year to become the newest entrant in an ultra-competitive market. Disney, which plans to halt its US-based mobile phone service in December, is now eyeing demand for its online contents in the world’s biggest market of third-generation phones. Disney would use local mobile phone […]

From Sotires Eleftheriou in Paris The French broadcasting regulator CSA has issued a call for candidates for national personal mobile TV services. The services are to be carried on the M7 multiplex using the DVB-H standard. The deadline for applications is 15 January 2008. M7 covers 70 urban areas and has a capacity for 16 […]

From David del Valle in Madrid Orange Spain, controlled by France Telecom, is launching the first HDTV broadcasts via mobile in Spain. The trial will last three months and will include three TV channels – MTV, National Geographic Channel and Sci Fi and some other sports content (football, tennis and basketball) – to be received […]

Sales of mobile video phones hit close to $58 billion (E40bn) worldwide in 2006 and are forecast to more than double to nearly $125 billion by 2010, says market research firm Infonetics Research in its latest report, Mobile Video Phones, Services, and Subscribers. Explosive growth in mobile video subscribers is forecast as well, jumping from […]

The developers of MPH in-band mobile digital television (DTV) have told members of the Community Broadcasters Association that their innovative technology, which is designed to reach viewers on the move, has the potential to generate new revenue streams for DTV broadcasters in general and the nation’s community broadcasters in particular. “Delivering robust DTV signals to […]

Alcatel-Lucent’s Mobile Interactive TV solution had been selected by Telstra Corporation Limited, Australia’s leading telecommunications and information services company, to deliver its first fully interactive Mobile TV service. Telstra Mobile Foxtel by Telstra encompasses 33 channels in packages across 5 genres. The convergent capabilities of Mobile TV will allow Foxtel customers with Foxtel iQ to […]

Alcatel-Lucent and Vodafone Portugal have demonstrated for the first time in Portugal the Unlimited Mobile TV solution based on DVB-SH technology. The live broadcast Mobile TV demonstration, based on the DVB-SH standard, uses the S-Band frequency spectrum. The demonstration enabled representatives of the Portuguese Government and of the broadcast, telecom and media sectors to watch […]

Interest in mobile TV remains very low, with just 1 per cent using it in the past 12 months and only 3 per cent saying they were likely to try it in the next year, according to Continental Research's Autumn 2007 Mobile Report. Mobile phone owners were asked whether they would prefer to have an […]