The French media regulator CSA has put back the date for the completion of its consultation into mobile TV by two weeks. The second phase of the consultation including a call for candidates began on January 17, 2007, following a plenary meeting of the regulator, and ahead of the National Assembly’s revision of French broadcasting [...]
TF1 shuts mobile TV services
February 20, 2007 10.50 Europe/London By
Mobile TV has suffered another blow after top French commercial channel TF1 announced it was shutting down its mobile TV services. TF1 Mobile launched last May, but five months on the service failed to reach more than 60,000 subscribers, despite rival services attracting significantly higher levels. Last April, TF1 chief executive Patrick Le Lay said [...]
Sundance shorts for mobile TV
February 15, 2007 14.48 Europe/London By
3GSM WORLD CONGRESS – BARCELONA. The five short ‘made for mobile’ films, premiering exclusively at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona this week, are now available for mobile users to download around the world. Information on the project and instructions for accessing the films can be found on the special website. To download the short [...]
Bollywood to mobile
February 15, 2007 11.10 Europe/London By
3GSM WORLD CONGRESS – BARCELONA. Bollywood productions will be made available to mobile phone TV viewers. The Congress marks the start of the adaptation of thousands of vibrant Bollywood productions for the mobile screen. The Bollywood Mobile Initiative is driven by Roamware, a company specialised in roaming and mobile connectivity solutions; Hungama Mobile, an aggregator, [...]
And the winner is….
February 15, 2007 10.32 Europe/London By
3GSM WORLD CONGRESS – BARCELONA. The winners of the Global Mobile Awards 2007 have been announced. In the category ‘Best Made for Mobile Video Service’ the prize went to marblemedia, NFB and Bravo! FACT for their production of Shorts in Motion: The Art of Seduction. Shorts in Motion: The Art of Seduction is a candid [...]
First live demo of Alcatel’s Unlimited Mobile TV
February 13, 2007 15.48 Europe/London By
3GSM CONGRESS – BARCELONA – Alcatel-Lucent shows the first demo of the proposed Unlimited Mobile TV service using the new DVB-SH standard, which combines satellite broadcasts in the S-band with terrestrial gap fillers. The prototype was made by Sagem, but Samsung will also produce a working model in the near future. With the system, which [...]
ZDF: Germans want their mobile TV
February 12, 2007 13.02 Europe/London By
3GSM WORLD CONGRESS – BARCELONA. 13% of the German population is interested in mobile TV, according to research on behalf of the ARD/ZDF-Medienkommission carried out in November, 2006. But they don’t necessarely want to watch it on their mobile phone: especially younger respondents said they also like this feature in their MP3 player or iPod. [...]
EuroNews launches Mobile Video Alerts
February 12, 2007 12.29 Europe/London By
3GSM WORLD CONGRESS – BARCELONA. EuroNews announced the launch of its breaking news Mobile Video Alerts service in cooperation with Comsys. EuroNews is starting the service, which will feature breaking news videos, at the end of February in France, soon to be followed in other languages for the different European markets. The service in France [...]
3GSM World Congress live on mobile TV
February 12, 2007 12.23 Europe/London By
3GSM WORLD CONGRESS – BARCELONA. The congress in Barcelona is live on the air through mobile TV. A DVB-H mobile TV network, operated by Abertis Telecom and provided by technology company SIDSA, covers the Congress distributing up to 10 mobile TV channels. Ten mobile TV channels are available through DVB-H-equipped mobile phones, thanks to SIDSA’s [...]
Nokia predicts 20 million mobile TV units in 2009
February 12, 2007 12.09 Europe/London By
3GSM WORLD CONGRESS – BARCELONA. Nokia President and CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo unveiled a number of new handsets including the Nokia N77 multimedia computer designed to accelerate the take up of DVB-H mobile TV devices, a market he predicted would reach between 5 to 10 million units by end of 2008 and around 20 million units [...]
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