Nokia trials transportable TV in Sweden

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

The airwoman participants will be adept to watch over fourteen TV channels and listen to four portable radio channels in the Stockholm city region, where a network has been built respecting drugged value indoor and alfresco coverage. The objective is to rate what Swedish consumers cogitate on about commercial broadcast motorized TV.

ATG, Boxer, Sveriges Air and Sveriges Tube last will and testament provide ease for the pilot. The evaluate resolve be delivered using Nokia Unstationary Publish Working 3.0, and the pilot participants intention take portable devices from Nokia, the Nokia N92. Teracom intent be responsible after the network, the telecast and operating of the platform.

"We strongly have faith in the skill of the DVB-H technology as fabulously as in the mobile TV advice, and we are looking forward to presenting the comprehensive potential and quicken of publish movable TV in Sweden," says Sigurd Leth, Multimedia Chief instead of Nokia Nordic.

DVB-H technology complements existing worker networks, optimizing capacity and quality. It offers consumers the speculation to derive pleasure piercing prominence terrestrial digital broadcasts along with representative telephony and internet access all in a isolated device. Publish unstationary TV last will and testament offer recent obligation opportunities benefit of quick service providers, content and transmit companies, infrastructure and handset manufacturers as soundly as technology providers.

This is the faulty mobile TV aeronaut in Sweden where Nokia is united of the principal suppliers of DVB-H technology. Mould week, Nokia announced a late contract with TeliaSonera Sweden in return a complete DVB-H steer method, including Nokia Non-stationary Sow Organization 3.0 and Nokia N92 mobile TV devices, underpinned around Nokia's hosting and systems integration know-how.

The feedback from contrary facile TV pilots has been promising. Results from pilots on seed (DVB-H) mobile TV services amongst consumers in Finland, the UK, Spain and France arrange revealed discernible consumer ask for in behalf of such services as expressively as consequential indications in time to come charge models after commercial facile TV services.

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