Mobiles reviews - mobile tv

Vodafone Germany offers Bundesliga via 3G streaming

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:30:34 +0000

Vodafone Germany is to broadcast all 612 first and second division Bundesliga matches in the 2008/09 season live to customers will 3G Mobile phones, via streaming. The offer is via something called “Vodafone Live! Football Flatrate”, and will cost 7.50 EUR per month, of which the first month is a free trial. Users will even [...]

Live NASCAR Racing coming to AT&T and Verizon Wireless mobile TV

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:39:20 +0000

ESPN and MediaFLO USA have announced that they will bring NASCAR live to the users of AT&T’s and Verizon Wireless’ mobile TV services. Under the agreement, MediaFLO USA and ESPN will air live race coverage of the NASCAR Nationwide Series, as well as six Sprint Cup Series races on ESPN Mobile TV. Upcoming Sprint Cup races include [...]

More bad news for Mobile TV in Korea

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:59:19 +0000

Some new numbers on Mobile TV’s take-up (or not!) in Korea haev emerged - and by Mobile TV in this instance, I am referring to the broadcast variety using the DMB standard. DMB can include both Terrestrial (T-DMB) and Satellite (S-DMB), but these stats lump those together - and the numbers still aint good! Apparently there [...]

Mobile TV in downward spiral in Germany and Japan

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:48:17 +0000

Whilst the lady in the picture seems quite happy with her Mobile TV, it would appear that people in both Germany and Japan will be less so…. Mobile 3.0 (the company that won the DVB-H auction in Germany) hasn’t been able to generate any traction in the market (and is probably headed for insolvency), since the [...]

Telegent and ZTE to offer FTA Mobile TV on ZTE Handsets

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:31:05 +0000

ZTE are maybe not that well-known to you as a handset vendor - probably their most public presence has been some handsets they have supplied to Hutchison 3G at the budget end of the market. But, ZTE is a growing giant, which plays in both mobile network infrastructure AND handsets…… now they have done a [...]

MGM goes live on Vodafone in Germany

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:51:21 +0000

MGM has just announced it’s first big agreement with Vodafone Germany. The MGM Channel, which is currently a German-language channel on Pay TV in Europe, is now going to be available through Vodafone. The MGM Channel is available on the 3G Vodafone Live! network in Germany, offering movies from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film library - including films [...]

BBC Trust considering 3G TV and Radio

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:43:20 +0000

The BBC Trust is apparently consulting on plans to syndicate all its national TV and radio services across 3G networks for mobile devices. Execs are going to propose to make the arrangement a permanent one after a 12-month trial, which ended in April this year. MNOs Vodafone, Orange, 3UK and T-mobile would distribute the channels as [...]

NDS chosen to power SMM for IPTV and Mobile TV in Russia

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:35:18 +0000

Sistema Mass Media (SMM) has chosen a suite of NDS technologies to secure and manage both its IPTV and mobile TV platforms - resulting in the delivery of a true convergence play for it’s subscriber services. NDS’s Unified Headend(TM) will cover set-top boxes, PCs, and a variety of Mobile devices. The NDS Unified Headend(TM) integrates conditional [...]

Singaporean Operators to test Mobile TV services

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:24:16 +0000

The three MNOs in Singapore, M1, SingTel and StarHub, along with the national broadcaster MediaCorp, are going to jointly condut a consumber Mobile TV trial using DVB-H next month. During the trial, 300 customers (across the MNOs) will be able to see six dedicated channels. The handset on offer will be (slightly unsurprisingly) the Samsung [...]

AlcaLu and SpeedCast form JV to offer DVB-H-based mobile TV in Asia

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:53:48 +0000

Alcatel Lucent and SpeedCast Ltd announced a tie-up to develop and commercialize a shared, hosted DVB-H platform for mobile TV operators in Asia.The companies are going to work together to leverage their tech, content delivery, and infrastructure solution to build a new Moby TV platform, that should deliver 20 TV channels for broadcast. Offering this kind [...]

Gigabyte t600 (DVB-T Mobile TV) review

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:52:48 +0000

The Unwired has got a really nice, detailed review on the Gigabyte t600 device, which was been mentioned on IntoMobile a few times now. Whilst not having UMTS or GPS (which we are coming to expect as standard on high-end smartphones now), it does have a fully functional DVB-T tuner…. DVB-T I hear you say? Yes, [...]

Mobile TV is Booming, Says Telstra

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:46:08 +0000

According to Telstra, their Mobile customer have watched 80,000+ hours of Mobile TV during April. This apparently is due to Telstra's close relationship with Foxtel, which supplies the content to the telco's mobile users. Foxtel by Mobile takes snippets of pay television programming and packages it across the Telstra Next G mobile platform. Interestingly, Telstra [...]

HAVA Mobile Player goes S60

Wed, 28 May 2008 11:07:47 +0000

If SlingMedia can do it, so can Monsoon Multimedia which just announced HAVA Mobile Player for S60. Earlier we saw their "TV place-shifting video-streaming solution" hitting Nokia Internet Tablets and now it's about time Nokia smartphone owners also take their TV experience with them, no matter where they happen to be. The HAVA Mobile Player for [...]

France Telecom to spend 200mn Euros on TV and Movies

Wed, 28 May 2008 09:49:39 +0000

Mobile Entertainment reports that France Telecom is planing to spend 200mn Euros on movies and TV this year. As most of you know, the French OpCo has moved strongly in to "Triple Play" - that is to say it has Mobile, TV, and Internet subscribers. As such, there needs to be a co-ordinated approach to [...]

BBC and O2 interested in Qualcomm's Mobile TV

Tue, 27 May 2008 19:19:36 +0000

O2 and the BBC are apparently both interested in hearing more from Qualcomm about a potential MediaFLO Mobile TV network in the UK, according to the FT. As you might know, Qualcomm recently won the L-band radio spectrum auction in the UK, laying out £8.3m - small fry for a company that spent out many many [...]