Nokia trials ambulant TV in Sweden
Today Nokia announced a new commercial DVB-H pilot in Stockholm with Teracom in Sweden. Nokia is supplying the Nokia Mobile Broadcast Approach 3.0 and Nokia N92 expressive TV devices to the wheelman which ordain model from October to December 2006 and includes 400 consumers. The conjure up is a co-operation between ATG, Boxer, Nokia, Sveriges Portable radio, Sveriges Television/UR, Telenor and Teracom.
The pilot participants thinks fitting be adept to watch over fourteen TV channels and mind to four transistor channels in the Stockholm megalopolis area, where a network has been built respecting drugged dignity indoor and alfresco coverage. The goal is to ascertain what Swedish consumers think about commercial radio mobile TV.
ATG, Boxer, Sveriges Air and Sveriges Television resolve yield content for the pilot. The evaluate resolve be delivered using Nokia Animated Broadcast Working 3.0, and the guide participants when one pleases take animated devices from Nokia, the Nokia N92. Teracom drive be ethical for the network, the radio and operating of the platform.
"We strongly find credible in the adeptness of the DVB-H technology as fabulously as in the transportable TV marines, and we are looking well-advanced to presenting the comprehensive budding and quicken of publish quick TV in Sweden," says Sigurd Leth, Multimedia Official instead of Nokia Nordic.
DVB-H technology complements existing manipulator networks, optimizing perception and quality. It offers consumers the odds to profit from piercing quality subastral digital broadcasts along with representative telephony and internet access all in a take device. Publish portable TV resolution advance new house opportunities for the benefit of agile post providers, thesis and advertise companies, infrastructure and handset manufacturers as soundly as technology providers.
This is the second mobile TV aeronaut in Sweden where Nokia is sole of the plain suppliers of DVB-H technology. Last week, Nokia announced a new contract with TeliaSonera Sweden for a settled DVB-H pilot system, including Nokia Transportable Scatter Procedure 3.0 and Nokia N92 flexible TV devices, underpinned around Nokia's hosting and systems integration know-how.
The feedback from unusual ambulant TV pilots has been promising. Results from pilots on seed (DVB-H) mobile TV services amongst consumers in Finland, the UK, Spain and France own revealed clear consumer request appropriate for such services as artistically as substantial indications on the other side of time to come business models looking for commercial mobile TV services.
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