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^{DVB-H demonstration} Nokia showcases mobi-tv in Malaysia

2 Sep 2005 at 17:04 GMT Timo Poropudas

Malaysia’s leading cross-media operator Astro, together with leading mobile operator Maxis Communications Berhad (“Maxis”) and Nokia showcased a live demonstration of mobile TV Broadcasting to Malaysians on the eve of the Merdeka Day celebrations in Kuala Lumpur Wenesday. The showcase used the Digital Video Broadcasting - Handheld (DVB-H) technology standard now undergoing extensive field trials in Europe, the USA and in other parts of Asia. Visitors to Dataran Merdeka were given demonstrations of the Mobile TV Broadcasting technology on the Nokia 7710 widescreen smartphone equipped with a DVB-H receiver/streamer by the Mobile TV Broadcasting promoters at the venue. In this initial trial service launched for the Merdeka showcase, Astro provided the broadcast transmission for the event coverage with 4 live channels: TV1, TV3, Astro Ria and AEC, while Maxis supplied telecommunication and network services. Nokia provided the technology for the showcase as well as the network equipment and mobile devices used in the demonstration while Rohde & Schwarz provided the transmitters. With this showcase, Malaysia becomes one of the leading countries globally to demonstrate DVB-H. Elsewhere in the Asia Pacific, the Mobile TV Broadcasting trial based on DVB-H technology has started in Australia. DVB-H has now been adopted by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) as the Mobile Broadcasting Technology standard and many other regions of the world are expected to follow suit once their own trials are concluded.