14 DAY TRIAL // Mobile phone giant Nokia has announced that it will team up with Motorola and Intel for the promotion of DVB-H technology standard for mobile TV.
The group of companies, called the Mobile DTV Alliance, aims to encourage open standards for TV broadcasts to mobiles, focusing on the North American market.
DVB-H is a broadcast standard technology for sending out streaming video to mobile devices or handhelds. In other words, this partnership and common ground will allow handheld manufacturers to bypass the service providers and offer content straight to the consumer.
The Mobile DTV Alliance stated that more than 10 DVB-H network trials are under way or have been completed, including in Australia, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Britain and the United States. The most major U.S. markets are expected to have DVB-H infrastructure ready for use by 2007.
DVB-H will compete with digital audio broadcast (DAB) technology, which is also under test by operators, as well as wireless firm Qualcomm's MediaFlo technology.