T-Mobile hits up MediaFLO for mobile TV trial
by Chris Ziegler 
posted Nov 30th 2006 at 3:51AM
We have to hand it to 'em, T-Mobile's gotta be given some credit for doing their homework in the whole mobile TV biz. It turns out that their trial agreement with Hiwire really is just that -- a trial -- and success won't guarantee them T-Mobile's signature on the dotted line. Besides working with both Hiwire and Modeo, the States' number four carrier has now hooked up with Qualcomm's MediaFLO folks, too, giving them the trifecta (if you will) of mobile TV partnerships. Though Qualcomm is more strongly associated with CDMA, GSM carriers have no particular reason to shy away from MediaFLO since the TV system is disjoint from CDMA itself. So far, T-Mobile's been low-key about naming a winner, which makes sense: the Vegas-based Hiwire trial hasn't yet begun and the MediaFLO trial (location unknown) is apparently still underway.[Via MocoNews]
Filed under: Multimedia, T-Mobile
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
mroach @ Nov 30th 2006 11:06AM
I *really* hope T-Mobile doesn't use MediaFLO. DVB-M is already the mobile digital TV broadcast standard in Europe. It would be pretty lame to be importing phones that don't work with broadcast digital TV here in the future. I'll still do it, but it would be nice if more features worked :/
kalleboo @ Dec 1st 2006 8:15AM
Ugh, MediaFLO is proprietary bullshit, but what do you expect from a US operator @_@.
Then again, without the existing DVB-T network that europe has, I guess it's just as expensive to build MediaFLO as it is to build DVB-M