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Results announced this week from one of the world's first commercial mobile TV pilots in Helsinki, Finland reveal the popularity and willingness to pay for mobile TV services, underlining the potential of this exciting new mobile application. 41% of pilot participants would be willing to purchase mobile TV services and half thought that a fixed monthly fee of 10 euros was a reasonable price to pay. Over half (58%) said that they believed broadcast mobile TV services would be popular. The pilot was conducted between March and June 2005 with 500 users accessing mobile TV using DVB-H technology. Read More
NRK, TV 2 Gruppen AS and Telenor Broadcast have entered into a partnership agreement to consider applying for a digital terrestrial TV network Read More
At the third Asean Digital Broadcasting (ADB) meeting, held on the 29th August in Brunei, Radio Television Malaysia announced that it had chosen Read More
A study is underway to create three new state owned terrestrial digital channels according to Press Minister Theodore Roussopoulos. One channel Read More
A recent report commissioned by the national broadcast regulator estimates that nine million TV households, 25.7% of German total, now receive Read More
Canal+ and TPS have been authorised to proceed with transmitting MPEG-4 on their respective multiplexes ahead of the pay TV latest start date of Read More
A report on broadcasting to mobile receivers has been submitted to the French Prime Minister. The report provides an analysis of existing Read More
Espoo, Finland - Results announced today from one of the world's first commercial mobile TV pilots in Helsinki, Finland reveal the popularity and Read More
According to an article in l'Express, reported on the Digitag website, Maxime King, head of London Satellite Systems (LSS) hopes to launch a DTT Read More
On August 23rd Siemens announced that it would provide a live DVB-H service at IFA2005 in Berlin. To demonstrate "Mobile TV", Siemens will for Read More
Applicants for Digital Terrestrial television service licences in Norway have until the 30th September to submit their applications. The successful Read More
The Media Authorities of five North German Länder last week announced their intention to work together towards the introduction of DVB-H services and published a paper supporting that position. The paper, titled Projekt DVB-H Norddeutschland, expresses their intent to smooth the way for the introduction of "Handy-TV" and to facilitate a rapid market introduction. It is hoped to fully test the technology with trial broadcasts during the 2006 World Cup Finals followed by the launch of regular services in 2007. Read More
