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Broadcast mobile TV in 'turmoil'
Stuart O'Brien Apr 14 2008, 10:37am
Nokia says up take of DVB-H mobile TV is 'slower than anticipated'.
Apparently people are more interested in downloading mobile video clips than watching live programming.
Reuters reports the Finnish company's head of internet services Niklas Savander as saying on the subject of DVB-H: "It's a bit in a turmoil... We have seen that there are multiple segments who are not interested in the broadcasting, but rather in downloads. Roll out is slower than also we anticipated a couple of years ago."
The comments were made at a conference in Helsinki late last week. Nokia has been a major backer of DVB-H mobile broadcast TV technology, to which the European Commission recently gave its official backing.
So far DVB-H services are available commercially in Finland, Italy, Singapore, the Philippines, Vietnam and Malaysia. Trials and deployments are also underway in India, China and Iran.
The sector is highly fragmented: other mobile broadcast TV technologies include Qualcomm's MediaFLO, DMB, CMMB, DAB-IP, A-VSB, TDtv, MPH and ISDB-T.
