EU To Adopt Single Moble-TV Standard - Will US Follow EU Lead ? Don't Bet On It

[Guest Blackwater]

BBC

European officials have backed a single standard for the rollout of

mobile TV services across Europe.

 

Telecoms commissioner Viviane Reding has called on member states to

roll out services using the DVB-H standard "as quickly as possible".

 

Some key players have questioned why Brussels rather than the market

is deciding what the standard should be.

 

And analysts warn it could see the UK fall behind unless regulatory

issues are ironed out.

 

Mobile TV warned to standardise

 

Mobile TV services, which allow news, sports and other programmes to

be broadcast directly to handsets, have begun rolling out around the

world.

 

The European Union is keen to make sure the region remains competitive

in a market it believes could be worth 20bn euros (

[Guest Scotius (Ponti Fickatur)]

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:53:00 GMT, bw@barrk.net (Blackwater) wrote:

>BBC

>European officials have backed a single standard for the rollout of

>mobile TV services across Europe.

>

 

I've noticed that the European almost always arrive at agreed

upon standards faster than many US corporations allow the US

government to do so. It seems to me that it benefits them in the long

run too, since they don't compete eachother to death in the short term

as some American companies do in, for example, electronics.

>Telecoms commissioner Viviane Reding has called on member states to

>roll out services using the DVB-H standard "as quickly as possible".

>

>Some key players have questioned why Brussels rather than the market

>is deciding what the standard should be.

>

>And analysts warn it could see the UK fall behind unless regulatory

>issues are ironed out.

>

>Mobile TV warned to standardise

>

>Mobile TV services, which allow news, sports and other programmes to

>be broadcast directly to handsets, have begun rolling out around the

>world.

>

>The European Union is keen to make sure the region remains competitive

>in a market it believes could be worth 20bn euros (