Interesting. My take on this article is that the existing digital terrestrial broadcasting standard (DVB-T) works well enough for mobile that it isn't worth the expense to build out a DVB-H specific network.
Something that will never be said in the United States, which opens the door for Qualcomm's MediaFLO and the upcoming ATSC add-on M/H standard.
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This end-run by the German operators was a turning point. This move "entirely bypassed the mobile broadcast value chain," and has drawn the attention of other European mobile operators "which haven't been able to deploy mobile broadcast TV services because of a lack of spectrum, incapacity to obtain a licence, or mobile TV business case skepticism," observed Ronan de Renesse, senior analyst at Screen Digest.
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