Alcatel-Lucent and SpeedCast to Launch Hosted DVB-H Mobile TV Service in Asia
Posted on: Friday, 20 June 2008, 12:00 CDT
Alcatel-Lucent and SpeedCast, a satellite service provider, have announced plans to jointly market, deploy and operate a shared, hosted DVB-H platform for mobile TV operators in Asia.
The objective of the collaboration is to enable the seamless delivery of digital video content to operators for transmission to devices supporting the DVB-H mobile TV standard.
Alcatel-Lucent and SpeedCast will leverage their respective technologies, infrastructure and content delivery solutions to provide operators around the region with a DVB-H head-end. This hosted service, jointly operated by Alcatel-Lucent and SpeedCast, will enable mobile TV service providers to deliver more than 20 TV channels via satellite (in the Ku-band or in the C-band) to their transmission towers for terrestrial broadcast (in the UHF band) to DVB-H handheld devices.
This hosted managed service claims to allow operators to drastically reduce the capital and operational expenditures associated with mobile TV service, and to leverage the economies of scale offered by a centralized platform.
Pierre-Jean Beylier, CEO of SpeedCast, said: "This hosted mobile TV broadcast offering will help lower the risk to service providers associated with introducing a new service, while at the same time giving them the opportunity to provide their customers with attractively priced services and richer content offerings."
Source: Datamonitor
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