The EC said it won’t object to France funding an R&D project comb...
The EC said it won’t object to France funding an R&D project combining satellite and terrestrial networks in order to broadcast TV over mobile phones. The “Unlimited Mobile TV” project, headed by Alcatel-Lucent, seeks to develop a new mobile…
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TV broadcasting solution in the 2.2 GHz frequency that will boost reception quality, geographical coverage and the number of channels that can be transmitted, the EC said. The project, which will benefit consumers as well as offering a crisis management service, will cost over 98 million, of which the French govt. proposed to provide nearly 38 million in state aid. Because European mobile TV markets are still emerging and don’t spontaneously generate the partnerships needed to deploy unlimited mobile TV, the state aid will make it possible to tackle market deficiencies that hamper speedy coordination among satellite manufacturers, terrestrial network infrastructures, mobile phones and semiconductors, the EC said.