Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Motorola and Nokia are to collaborate to achieve interoperability among their DVB-H (digital video broadcast - handheld) enabled mobile devices and network services - in particular to support services based on the DVB-IPDC (DVB-IP multicast) standard - to enable operators to deploy multi-vendor mobile TV services and trials in 2006 and onward. {jomcomment}
Separately the intend to continue their participation in standardisation bodies to ensure that interoperability between different vendors' equipment will be assured so long as itconforms to future standards.
The collaboration follows the formation in January of the Mobile DTV Alliance to promote the DVB-H technology. Founding members were Nokia, Intel, Motorola, Texas Instruments and Modeo (a company owned by Crown Castle International)
The standard is based on the DVB-T (Terrestrial) digital video broadcast standard and uses the same frequencies to deliver signals to handsets which combine a DVB-H receiver with a standard cellular phone. DVB-H is able to deliver up to 50 channels in the bandwidth of a standard DVB-T channel.
Nokia and Motorola cite research from Informa claiming that by 2010, there will be over 50 million DVB-H enabled mobile devices sold globally. "The deployment of mobile TV services will offer new business opportunities for companies across the value chain - including content and broadcast companies, mobile service providers, infrastructure and handset manufacturers and technology providers - and the availability of interoperable DVB-H enabled devices and services is a key factor in further opening up the market," they claim.
DVB-H, however, is one of only several technologies competing to deliver mobile TV services. Motorola and Nokia say it will be successful because it offers high service level quality, low battery consumption and offers the end-user the ability to simultaneously receive broadcasts while using other mobile services such as telephony and internet access on their device." A particularly promising competitor is the FLO technology backed by Qualcomm. In the UK, BSkyB is planning a trial of FLO and it has the support of a number of major players.
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