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.
Alcatel has set up Alcatel Mobile Broadcast, a new internal venture dedicated to Mobile TV.
Alcatel claims that recent experience from 3G service offers demonstrates a significant consumer appetite for mobile TV. However, it claims that while current mobile networks enable the distribution of numerous TV channels, they have limitations in terms of global coverage and the number of users simultaneously receiving these channels in the same cell.
Mobile operators and broadcasters are therefore considering several options to establish an additional infrastructure to deliver TV and various multimedia services to their mobile customers, economically and with the best possible coverage.
Alcatel says its new venture will "develop the appropriate technologies, build the necessary ecosystem and promote the solution to mobile operators and broadcasters."
"Alcatel's unique positioning in both mobile and satellite activities worldwide will help to bring a complete and efficient mobile TV solution to our customers based on an hybrid offer combining terrestrial and satellite coverage," said Etienne Fouques, president of Alcatel's mobile activities, who will supervise this new activity.
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