According to the State Administration of Radio Film and Television (SARFT), mobile CMMB TV will soon be launched in commercial test networks in Beijing, Shenzhen, and Shanghai. During the testing, seven free channels (CCTV-1, CCTV-3, CCTV-Olympic Channel, CCTV-News, CCTV-Kids Channel, and the English-language CCTV-9) will be available, as well as one channel local to the […]

Channel 4 is said to be interested in purchasing a chunk of spectrum on the second national digital radio multiplex to use in the launch of mobile TV services. It could bid for some of the 22 per cent of the second multiplex’s bandwidth that is reserved for non-radio services such as mobile TV.Such a […]

From David Del Valle in Madrid Sogecable is launching Digital Plus Movil, the mobile version of its digital DTH platform, to all Orange’s 3G customers. The initial offer is composed of 27 TV channels from all TV genre, including, from May 8th, a specific channel dedicated to bullfighting, Canal + Eventos Movil. Amongst the channels […]

AT&T plans to launch a television service for mobile phones next week, following in the footsteps of rival Verizon. The service, which will be available in 58 markets, will offer programmes from several major TV networks, including CBS, Comedy Central, NBC and Fox. While some of the network programming will air simultaneously with what is […]

AT&T is launching mobile television services in May with MediaFLO from Qualcomm. AT&T, the biggest US mobile service, said it would offer MediaFLO to users of the Vu phone from LG and the Access from Samsung and plans two exclusive channels. It did not reveal service pricing. AT&T’s service arrives about a year after Verizon […]

Motorola Inc said it would split into two publicly traded entities to separate its loss-making handset division from its other businesses. The move is expected to be completed in 2009, the company said. Motorola has been losing handset market share and is now ranked third in the world. The two entities it plans to split […]

Streaming video and music distributed across the Internet, an IPTV network, or a mobile handset will generate $70 billion in network-derived and content-derived revenue into the US markets over the next six years, according to a study from The Insight Research Corporation. Insight’s market analysis study, “Streaming Media, IPTV, and Broadband Transport: Telecommunications Carriers and […]

As of February 2008, the number of subscribers to mobile TV service in Korea is 11 million including 9.69 million to terrestrial DMB and 1.31 million to satellite DMB. If the growth continues at this rate, terrestrial DMB users will pass the 10 million mark in March. According to the Broadcasting and Communications Commission and […]

Time Broadband Services and joint venture partner Stanton Technologies have launched their IPTV service over 2.5G mobile platform. The JV also announced the signing of contracts with DiGi in Malaysia and China Mobile and China Unicom in China. “Through an exclusive deal with the Chinese government owned entity, the Time-Stanton JV will have access to […]

Annual revenues generated by mobile search services are expected to reach $4.8bn by 2013, according to a report from Juniper Research. Whilst revenue generated by data charges associated with mobile search is significantly higher than that generated by mobile advertising at the present time, the gap will close over the next five years as the […]