Fifteen members sign letter to accelerate common standards for broadcast mobile TV.
The Broadcast Mobile Convergence Forum (bmcoforum) wants to speed up the market introduction of DVB-H enabled devices as soon as possible –preferably for the FIFA football world cup in Q2 2010.
The signatories are 3 Austria, Orange Austria, Media Broadcast Austria, 3 Italy, Media Broadcast Germany, Antenna Hungaria, Dominanta and KENTAVR Russia, DStv Mobile from Nigeria, Ghana, Namibia and Kenya, Safaricom from Kenya, Digita from Finland, INFO-TV-FM from Poland, KPN from the Netherlands as well as Mediaquest and Smart from the Philippines.
All of them will provide commercial DVB-H services and networks for Mobile TV in the short term. So far they have invested substantial budgets, but are concerned with the lack of substantial roadmaps for new DVB-H phones.
“The FIFA football world cup 2010 may give a push to mobile TV usage across the African countries in which we operate. For that we need affordable devices with integrated DVB-H receivers,” said Francois Theron, CEO of DStv Mobile Africa.
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