In a recent sitting the German Bundesrat (“federal council”) decided there should be no mandatory standard for mobile TV broadcasts. The council does not agree with the European Commission, which wants to make the usage of DVB-H compulsory. Next year, three mobile operators plan to launch a nationwide DVB-H service in the country, but at the moment one operator, Mobiles Fernsehen Deutschland (MFD), already employs a commercial DMB service in some parts iof the country.
The council also warns that such regulatory measures from Brussels could interfere with the free fklow of information, the plurality of the media and cultural diversity.
