Its unique standard, CMMB (China Multimedia Mobile Broadcasting), is digital, based on homegrown technology and specifically designed for mobile broadcasting.
However, a confluence of events has just led to the BBC's Nick Garnett becoming a pioneer for mobile broadcasting on the professional level.
Despite success in countries like Japan, Korea and Italy, which began broadcasting mobile digital TV as early as 2005, the technology has yet to take off worldwide.
In addition to live broadcast TV from Dyle partner stations, users can access any other stations that may be broadcasting to mobile in a specific market.
By the time of the highly anticipated Aug. 8 opening day of the games, China plans to be broadcasting digital mobile television to 65 cities throughout the country.
"We're changing the industry's standards for live broadcasting from mobile devices by focusing on what matters most, video quality in cellular networks, " said Max Haot, CEO and Co-Founder of Livestream.
"Broadcasting 3D mobile DTV shows television stations how flexible the ATSC Mobile DTV standard is and, perhaps more importantly, shows retailers and consumers a cool new application for mobile DTV, " said Jay Adrick, vice president of broadcast technology, Harris Corporation, which co-developed the ATSC MDTV standard with LG Electronics and Zenith.
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In an odd coincidence, that frequency in South Korea is heavily dominated by broadcasting companies beaming mobile TV to commuters.
By forming Pearl, each founding TV group underscored their individual and collective commitments to the vital extension of local broadcasting onto the mobile platform.
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It uses free software called FrontlineSMS that turns a laptop and a mobile phone into a text-broadcasting hub.
In NBA, the Second Circuit reversed an injunction that prevented Motorola from broadcasting NBA scores on its mobile devices.
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The ZOTAC StreamBox bridges the gap between mobile devices and television sets to enable easy broadcasting of audio, video and image files from Android smartphones, tablets and notebooks via the industry standard DLNA protocol.
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From broadband Internet to latest-generation wireless technologies, from aeronautical and maritime navigation to radio astronomy and satellite-based meteorology, from convergence in fixed-mobile phone, Internet access, data, voice and TV broadcasting to next-generation networks, ITU is committed to connecting the world.
The country's early start in mobile television owes as much to its sprawling suburbs as to its broadcasting acumen.
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Elsewhere, the preferred technology for beaming television to mobile phones is known as DVB-H (short for digital video broadcasting to a hand-held).
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Two big German TV companies stopped broadcasting the event after a rider from the home T-Mobile team tested positive early in the race.
These include the mobile social networks Foursquare and Gowalla, which enable "checking in" and broadcasting to your friends, say, that you have arrived at the corner bar.
"The PGA Championship is a marquee event both for the sport of golf and for Turner Sports and each year we strive to offer the most comprehensive, multiplatform coverage to fans, allowing them to follow the event on television, online or through mobile devices, " said David Levy, president of sales, distribution and sports for Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.
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Mass broadcasting may yet come, though, from the thing that killed Iridium: the ordinary mobile phone.
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While Glu does create its own games, the company also strikes deals with other game companies and well-known brands and makes their games available as well--so you'll find mobile games from Atari, Celador, Fox, PopCap Games, Sega Europe, Microsoft, Turner Broadcasting, Hasbro and Harrah's Entertainment.
Inmarsat of London is the big daddy of mobile satellite communications services, and there are few more successful satellite TV companies in the world than British Sky Broadcasting.
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