Mobile TV Business Continuity is Threatened

Mobile TV Business Continuity is Threatened: Deployment of revenue-based digital television service to move (mobile TV), which has retreated from the commercialization schedule in the first quarter of 2010 threatened the street does not even begin penetrated its market-featured mobile terrestrial digital TV.

Kendro Hendra, Chief Executive Officer of PT Skybee Page said the mobile TV standard to adopt digital video broadcasting-handheld (DVB-H) does not continue. "This [mobile TV standard DVB-H] does not seem to street and everywhere DVB-H is not there anymore,"

According Kendro, the factor is not continuing the business of mobile TV standard DVB-H in many countries due to factors over which the investment should be prepared a TV station and terminal equipment customers. That is, Kendro continued, although the government agreed with some of the standard, the standard way only digital video broadcasting terrestrial (DVB-T).

As for the development of technology, DVB-T standard can be tailored precisely to the smaller format accepted by enabling handset. Skybee himself working on the medium of digital TV phone market bottom following the inaugural series 6OAL mobile digital TV capable of capturing the-air broadcasts offer (free) analogue and digital terrestrial.

According Kendro, making the mobile TV broadcaster or TV station should increase its capital to provide DVB-H transmitters, when the TV station also provides DVB-T transmitter is powered big.

Disagree with Kendro, spokesman of Program & Media Relations Trends in Mobile TV Consortium Haris Jauhari said preparations instead of deploying mobile TV services is still ongoing. "Currently we are and also the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology are still doing evaluations, the point we are prepared, including technologically," he told Business.

He added that in addition to the evaluation phase, the deployment service has been temporarily delayed because the consortium was still trying to create the right business model.

Similar assertion conveyed Head of Information and Public Relations Kemkominfo Gatot Dewa Broto said mobile TV is still under evaluation. Trends in Mobile TV Consortium trials involving implementers include RCTI, TPI, Global TV, ELECTRIC Infocom, and others.

The consortium also established cooperation with cellular phone operator PT Indosat Tbk. ELECTRIC Infokom last year has allocated U.S. $ 1 million for testing and services amounted to U.S. $ 10 million for commercialization in the Greater Jakarta area as well as several other big cities in Java.

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