European Commission standardizes on DVB-H, Nokia dances jig on Qualcomm's grave

by Thomas Ricker, posted Mar 18th 2008 at 7:44AM

As expected, the European Commission just did the obvious and made the EU's de facto DVB-H standard, standard. The move is expected to accelerate the deployment of mobile television services across Europe in the same way that GSM standardization in the early 90s gave Europe a head-start on backwater cellular locations like North America. So get outta Dodge Qualcomm and South Korea with your MediaFLO and DMB mobile television technologies, you aren't welcome around Brussels anymore.

Filed under: Multimedia

Tags: dmb, dvb-h, eu, europe, european commission, EuropeanCommission, mediaflo, nokia, qualcomm

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DramaQueen101 @ Mar 18th 2008 10:04AM

OMG!

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DramaQueen101 @ Mar 18th 2008 10:08AM

OMG!

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DramaQueen101 @ Mar 18th 2008 3:00PM

Shorty Get Loose!

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Pippo_San @ Mar 18th 2008 3:32PM

A needed move, which should have probably been done even before.

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Eric @ Mar 19th 2008 6:55AM

I think it's great that I live in a country where we have a choice of transmission formats, instead of that pesky standardization. I hope the EU figures out that what's important is not that the customer gets a choice of service providers, but that the service providers can choose whatever incompatible formats they want. See also: Sirius -vs- XM, Motorola -vs- Scientific Atlanta. Look for Coke and Pepsi to introduce incompatible bottles and proprietary vending machines sometime in 2010.

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Itsuru @ May 17th 2008 12:38PM

Strange that in Europe we actually have a greater choice of phones and services though ;)

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DramaQueen101 @ Mar 19th 2008 5:50PM

NOOO!

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DramaQueen101 @ Mar 19th 2008 5:50PM

61d461fb

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youngcalihottie @ Mar 19th 2008 7:38PM

why on earth do our north american carriers have to always do things differently? *sigh* so much for importing the next gen of phones and being able to use all of their features. with 850/1900/1700/700/mediaflo we are truely the oddballs of the world. just great.

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