Nokia sees new mobile TV networks by mid-2006
Mobile phone giant Nokia expects mobile TV networks using its chosen standard to be up and running by the middle of next year, allowing people to watch live TV broadcasts on their cellphones. The new system is called Digital Video Broadcast-Handheld (DVB-H) and is supposed to be better than the existing third-generation (3G) and Digital Media Broadcast (DMB) networks. Once again America is out of the tech race and isn’t going to be one of the first with DVB-H.
The system — Digital Video Broadcast-Handheld (DVB-H) — is being tested in about 40 pilots worldwide and Nokia’s Anssi Vanjoki said on Wednesday he expects networks to go live in the first half of 2006. Mobile operators and broadcasters are hoping flat-rate TV services or pay-per-view broadcasts will bring in revenue from people who cannot bear to miss a goal or the latest episode of their favorite soap opera while out and about. Vanjoki expected Switzerland, Indonesia, Thailand, Germany and Russia to be among the first to set up mobile TV networks using DVB-H.
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