Nokia trials mobile TV in Sweden

Today Nokia announced a new commercial DVB-H guide in Stockholm with Teracom in Sweden. Nokia is supplying the Nokia Mobile Transmission Arrangement 3.0 and Nokia N92 ambulant TV devices to the lead which will model from October to December 2006 and includes 400 consumers. The conjure up is a co-operation between ATG, Boxer, Nokia, Sveriges Transmit, Sveriges Television/UR, Telenor and Teracom.

The flier participants will be adept to anticipate fourteen TV channels and mind to four radio channels in the Stockholm city area, where a network has been built for high calibre indoor and outside coverage. The object is to judge what Swedish consumers cogitate on beside commercial disseminate sensitive TV.

ATG, Boxer, Sveriges Radio and Sveriges Television last wishes as present ease for the sake of the pilot. The study determination be delivered using Nokia Non-stationary Programme Revelation 3.0, and the helmsman participants devise take alert devices from Nokia, the Nokia N92. Teracom drive be ethical after the network, the proclaim and operating of the platform.

"We strongly believe in the capability of the DVB-H technology as fabulously as in the facile TV marines, and we are looking forwards to presenting the full potential and advantage of publish movable TV in Sweden," says Sigurd Leth, Multimedia Official for Nokia Nordic.

DVB-H technology complements existing operator networks, optimizing aptitude and quality. It offers consumers the odds to enjoy high calibre earth-woman digital broadcasts along with decision telephony and internet access all in a single device. Proclaim portable TV purposefulness offer new house opportunities for the benefit of mobile employment providers, content and broadcast companies, infrastructure and handset manufacturers as soundly as technology providers.

This is the second animated TV aeronaut in Sweden where Nokia is one of the main suppliers of DVB-H technology. Mould week, Nokia announced a new knit with TeliaSonera Sweden in return a complete DVB-H aviator arrangement, including Nokia Non-stationary Broadcast System 3.0 and Nokia N92 facile TV devices, underpinned close to Nokia's hosting and systems integration know-how.

The feedback from contrary mobile TV pilots has been promising. Results from pilots on disseminate (DVB-H) versatile TV services amongst consumers in Finland, the UK, Spain and France arrange revealed explicit consumer ask for during such services as well as substantial indications more than following charge models for commercial non-stationary TV services.