I like Nokia’s phones a lot--I think they’ll do well. and with Doordarshan, Qualcomm won’t have a chance.

I think Mobile Tv should also be on the agenda of the commonwealth games plannung committees apart from the government agencies. Afterall we do see a lot of facilitation of roads, transport and other infrastructure.

Will be be realistically be able to see a good mobile Tv service by that time? The answer depends on many factors like whether 3G spectrum will go through and to whom, how will mobile TV be licensed etc. There is a need to see through that not only the technology is licensed, but it is actually available to a reasonable section of viewers. This will require certain standardization.
In a mobile market which has a very limited number of smartphones capable of recieving Mobile TV, if these too are split amongst many technologies, this nascent market will never take off. The only reason for strong recommendation for DVB-H has been that India has adopted DVB-T as the standard for terrestrial broadcasting and DVB-T and DVB-H can operate on same platforms.It has no implication on any other technology being inferior or superior. This is analogous to EU recommending a single standard or China selecting a seperate standard for mobile TV.These two markets will outpace others owing to this very reason, with perhaps china being the largest in the world in two years.

March 17,2008

EU has now adopted DVB-H as the Single standard for Mobile TV.

See http://www.mobiletvhome.com/newdevelopments.aspx