Fifteen mobile service providers and broadcast network operators represented in bmcoforum have launched an initiative to come up with common handset specs for vendors, in order to speed up market introduction of new handsets. These are 3, Orange and Media Broadcast from Austria, 3 Italy, Media Broadcast from Germany, Antenna Hungaria, Dominanta and KENTAVR from […]

Korean mobile TV operators will introduce interactive services in December. The country’s six terrestrial DMB operators will start ‘DMB 2.0’ services and allow customers to access a range of data services such as e-commerce, stock updates, and personal video recording. Despite the services being available shortly, there are no handsets as yet that support the […]

New forecasts by technology and media specialist Coda Research Consultancy show that mobile phone users in Italy accessing video content via their devices will climb to 5.1m in 2015, and that revenues will reach US$685m. Coda's report into the Italian TV market shows that users accessing TV content via DVB-H alone will double from its […]

Mobile 3G operator 3 has launched the first mobile TV subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service, giving subscribers on-demand access to entire episodes of hit TV shows. The SVOD service, called 'TV on Demand', is fully managed and powered by Mobix Interactive, now part of On Demand Group. 3's TV on Demand fulfils the industry's anytime, anywhere […]

Users of the Apple iPhone are among the heaviest users of digital content and are also more willing than any other consumer to pay for a wide range of types of content, according to findings in this year’s Olswang Convergence Survey. iPhone users are heavy users of services such as on-demand TV – not only […]

Qualcomm has revealed that Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) has recognised MediaFLO technology as one of two official technologies for nationwide mobile multimedia broadcasting services in Japan. This milestone signifies that MediaFLO-enabled mobile TV services may be deployed in Japan once spectrum is made available in 2011. The only other mobile broadcast […]

Google has agreed a deal to buy the mobile advertising firm AdMob. The search giant is paying $750 million in stock for the firm in a bid to take advantage of advertising opportunities in mobile devices. AdMob specialises in selling adverts displayed on small screens for handsets such as the iPhone or the Blackberry. Google […]

The Indian government is in the process of formulating a policy for mobile TV through terrestrial broadcasting. According to reports, a licensing regime, on the lines of private FM radio, is being planned for mobile TV as well. The information and broadcasting (I&B) ministry is actively considering the proposal. If the proposal is cleared by […]

Polish mobile TV operator DVB-TV-FM has launched a pilot DVB-H project in Warsaw. Polish operators Polsat, Canal+ Digital, Centernet, Vectra and Netia are taking part in the project, reports Telepolis.pl. The goal of the pilot project is to research market interest for a future retail offer of the service. It will last more than two […]

German commercial broadcaster ProSieben will launch a mobile data service via the network of Vodafone Germany. The prepaid service will be called ProSieben Web & TV Stick and is developed by ProSiebenSat.1’s multimedia division SevenOne Intermedia and Vodafone. The service offers mobile data access via UMTS and free mobile TV via DVB-T plus free access […]