The Olympics promise to be a picture-perfect showcase for China's digital mobile TV service.
Licenses in the "E block" of spectrum, clustered around metropolitan areas like Boston and San Francisco, will be used to expand its mobile TV service, MediaFLO.
Access to the Dyle mobile TV service will be offered in select markets and at no additional charge to customers on a MetroPCS 4G LTE service plan.
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For now, that's hardly a concern: The Chinese government plans to subsidize the mobile digital TV service for the first year to whet Chinese users' enthusiasm for the technology.
This device will include a standard over-the-air DTV tuner, along with a mobile TV tuner that is compatible with Dyle(TM)mobile TV, a service that enables consumers to watch live, local TV while they are on the go.
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So far, they have been short on details, but some say they could adapt their business models to offer widespread mobile TV and even wireless broadband service if technical and regulatory hurdles are removed.
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MediaFLO will negotiate deals with media companies to deliver their content, and will sell the service directly to cellular operators, who will share the network and resell TV service to their mobile customers.
Consumers have been trained to pay monthly fees for TV, phone, internet and mobile service.
Still, he believes that services like video-over-mobile at 4 megabits per second and Internet TV service at speeds up to 20 megabits per second will get Telecom Italia out of its doldrums.
In just two years, URHOtv, a subsidiary of Parsifal, has become the leading sports TV service in Finland with a unique offering covering linear pay TV, web TV and mobile.
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Handsets running Microsoft's mobile operating system cannot currently access the catch-up TV and radio service.
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"It will take time before it's launched for a TV service, but adoption is much quicker in the mobile area, and we'll probably see the first services for mobile use cases next year, " he says.
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"I look forward to working closely with broadcasters and mobile network operators to ensure everyone continues to be able to receive their current TV service, " said newly appointed chief executive Simon Beresford-Wiley.
Fixed and mobile telecoms operators, and cable TV operators, will take a 23% share, and managed service providers will account for the remaining 2% of enterprise cloud-based services revenue.
Pearl then formed Mobile Content Venture (MCV) along with NBCU, FOX and Ion to commercialize a mobile television service that will use their stations' over-the-air spectrum to deliver TV programming directly to mobile and handheld devices.
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The advanced adaptive streaming format has gained the support of IC vendors including Broadcom, MediaTek, and MStar, and has been selected to power video delivery for UK-based Dixons Retail's KNOWHOW Movies, German retailer Media Markt's Videodownloadshop, and Mei-Ah and China Mobile powered services that provides 4G LTE and 3G service subscribers instant access on their Android mobile devices to on-demand, catch-up TV.
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