BUDAPEST -(Dow Jones)- The Hungarian arm of mobile telecommunications provider Vodafone and T-Mobile Hungary jointly launched trial mobile television services together with Hungarian broadcaster Antenna Hungaria, the companies' executives said Tuesday.
The test, which is conducted on the Digital Video Broadcasting for Handheld, or DVB-H, standard, is based on a platform provided by Nokia Siemens Networks and is available on Nokia N92 and Nokia N77 handsets to a selected number of users of up to 300.
Hungary plans to call tenders this spring for digital video broadcasting terrestrial licenses, which will likely include DVB-H, Gyorgy Marton, spokesman of Hungary's telecom authority, NHH, told Dow Jones Newswires.
The mobile companies plan to subsidize the high-end handsets capable of receiving the service, Janos Winkler, head of T-Mobile Hungary told the press. Several other issues need to be sorted out before the commercial launch of the service, such as further standardization, content and the business model, the executives added.
T-Mobile Hungary is owned by Magyar Telekom, in which Deutsche Telekom holds a 59.2% stake. Antenna Hungaria is fully owned by French TDF.
-By Margit Feher, Dow Jones Newswires; +361-267-0622; margit.feher@dowjones.com
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Posted to the site on 8th January 2008
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