French broadcast transmission company TDF has proposed to mobile operators and TV broadcasters that it would finance the mobile TV network rollout and broadcasting costs during a first phase to reach 17 per cent population coverage. Until now, TDF had proposed to pay for the rollout, but only for a quarter of operating costs. Under […]
Mobile subscriptions will rise to 4.6 billion by the end of this year, boosted by a continuing mobile phone boom in emerging economies, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) said. That represents about two mobile subscriptions for every three people in the world, although in developed economies many people have more than one subscription. Mobile broadband […]
Nokia, Samsung, Silicon Image, Sony and Toshiba gave confirmed the formation of a Mobile High-Definition Interface Working Group that intends to create an industry standard for an audio/video interface to connect mobile phones or portable consumer electronics (CE) devices directly to high-definition televisions and displays. This new mobile connectivity standard, based on Silicon Image's Mobile […]
Polish DVB-H mobile TV services provider Info-TV-FM has released the details of its wholesale offer and opened the service to testers in Warsaw with compatible mobile phones. Albert Kuzmicz, president of one of the company’s main backers Magna Polonia, told local reporters that the company is in talks with mobile operators on launching commercial services […]
Qualcomm subsidiary FLO TV is introducing a new consumer device for receiving its live mobile TV service, which is transmitted digitally on UHF Ch. 55 spectrum. The new "FLO TV Personal Television" is the latest effort from FLO TV, formerly known as MediaFLO, to expand its subscription mobile TV broadcasts to platforms beyond cellphones. The […]
Deutsche Telekom (DT) is reportedly planning to launch a mobile TV service using the DVB-H standard in 2010. The German telco's mobile unit T-Mobile is said to be in talks with Mobile Broadcast over the rollout of a network of DVB-H transmitters. This would mark the third attempt to launch a mobile TV service in […]
Leading US cable operator Comcast has confirmed plans to offer subscribers the option to watch the company's TV shows on mobile devices through its new wireless Internet service. The company is also exploring adding a voice option to the wireless package that would put it Comcast recently started rolling out its wireless Internet services in […]
According to an InfoCom study the number of mobile TV users continues to grow but there is still no proven business model so far. Japan, South Korea and Italy are the leading markets for broadcast-based mobile TV services but mobile TV subscriber growth in these markets is driven mainly by free or partly-free access and […]
QuickPlay Media has unveiled the findings of its latest quarterly US consumer consumption analysis. The results-aggregate usage statistics from 17 representative QuickPlay-powered services revealed a rise in consumer demand for video downloads as well as a sharp increase in average length of stream views. The latest findings, compiled between April 1st and June 30th, 2009, […]
FLO TV, provider of the FLO TV live mobile TV, and Rentrak, a multi-screen media measurement and research company serving the entertainment industry, have aligned to launch the mobile television industry’s first comprehensive viewership and advertising impression reporting using Rentrak’s TV Essentials media measurement system. Through their collaboration, FLO TV and Rentrak will deliver reporting […]