Clearwire, ICO hook up for US DVB-H trial
by Chris Ziegler 
posted Sep 14th 2007 at 2:46PM
MediaFLO's clearly the overwhelming favorite in the nascent (or is that nonexistent?) US mobile TV market, having already bagged two of the four national carriers while the other two -- Sprint and T-Mobile -- spin their wheels in trials. On the other side of the fence, though, lies DVB-H, the Europe-wide standard that has inexplicably found virtually zero carrier love in States despite broad manufacturer support. Presently, the US' meager DVB-H efforts are represented by Hiwire's trials alone now that Modeo's slipped its mortal coil and gone to that Big HTC Foreseer in the Sky; that could be about to change, though, with ICO and Clearwire announcing that they'll be bringing a DVB-H trials Raleigh, North Carolina and Las Vegas early next year. Two DVB-H supporters is clearly better than one in the effort to better balance the Qualcomm juggernaut here, but we still need a carrier deal or two to lock it all up. Best of luck, fellas.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Robbie @ Sep 15th 2007 4:19PM
hmmm... seems like sprint would stick with clearwire. wonder if sprint may switch over? hope att does too. lets keep gsm... well... gsm. the states keep straying too far from the rest of the world and im tired of the growing number of things that are incompatible with my imported phones