Orange and T-Mobile UK have revealed they intend to jointly pilot a new mobile TV and multimedia broadcast service in London using NextWave Wireless' UMTS MBMS based TDtv solution. The pilot, scheduled for the second half of 2008, will be targeted at people in West London and will demonstrate how the cost of providing high-quality, […]
Ten years on from the first CA Directive, the European Commission is launching an open consultation and is asking all interested parties to submit information and views on services that use conditional-access. The consultation follows an impact assessment study of the Directive on CA Services. The Commission will use the information gathered during the consultation […]
From David Del Valle in Barcelona The European Commission’s decision to bet on the DVB-H standard to for Europe has been fiercely criticised by the Qualcomm-sponsored FLO Forum at the MWC in Barcelona which has demanded a neutral position from European authorities in the emerging mobile TV business. “It is still very premature having a […]
From Colin Mann in Barcelona Mobile TV use is set to surge due to strong consumer demand, with the service ranked as the number one application users want on their phone, according to a consumer behaviour study conducted by Ericsson and news broadcaster, CNN. The results suggest that mobile TV is poised to become a […]
The UK’s five biggest mobile operators have signed a deal to develop a common system for measuring mobile advertising effectiveness that aims to make it as easy for advertisers to run campaigns on mobiles as it is across other media such as TV and press. Advertisers and agencies have long complained that one of the […]
BBC Radio and the 4 Digital Group have confirmed their commitment to develop digital radio in the UK, in the wake of G Cap abandoning its two DAB stations and condemning the whole platform as 'uneconomic.' The two parties said they intended to look at ways of encouraging more rapid consumer take-up of digital radio […]
The US FCC has issued the formal notice confirming MSOs will be barred from a market a national market share higher than 30 per cent of multichannel subscribers. The FCC says it wanted to make sure no cable operator or group of operators could “impede the flow of programming to its consumers” because of its […]
Motorola is making up for some of its losses in mobile as it sees a strong boost from sales of set-top boxes for high-definition television services, according to Dan Moloney, head of the company’s set-top box and network equipment unit. “We saw a tremendous increase in demand for set-top boxes in the holiday season and […]
From Colin Mann in Barcelona Content protection specialist Nagravision has joined forces with mobile multimedia device developer Quantum and automotive component manufacturer Magneti Marelli to launch QTM TV, a DVB-H and DVB-T pay-TV mobile set top box dedicated to in-car entertainment'. The QTM TV is thought to be the first automotive grade set-top box providing […]
The president of MTV, Christina Norman, is stepping down after almost three years of trying to revitalise the cable channel and adding music and reality-based programming. Van Toffler, the president of the MTV Networks' Music and Logo Group, will assume Norman's day-to-day responsibilities for MTV.