Qatar Telecom (Qtel) and Nokia Siemens Networks have signed the worldÃ's first commercial Mobile TV deployment contract based on DVB-H and OMA BCast Smart Card Profile technology.
With OMA BCast SCP, mobile operators are able to integrate the management rights for Mobile TV broadcast content, provided via DVB-H, into their existing infrastructure. For the authentication of mobile TV subscribers, Nokia Siemens Networks is providing its One-BSF solution, forming a key part of Qtel's Unified Subscriber Database strategy for creating a common subscriber profile to be used for both mobile and DVB-H service.
In addition, Nokia will provide Nokia N96 mobile phones to test the first SCP compliant software that enables subscribers to choose from among a host of payment models and interactivity options.
"This innovation introduces ‘world firstsÃ' to the global communications community: Qtel will be the first operator anywhere in the world to commercially deploy DVB-H SCP. We will also be the first company to integrate the new Nokia N96 model into our deployment strategy," said Adel Al Mutawa, Executive Director of Group Communications, Qtel.
The solutions offered by Nokia and Nokia Siemens Networks are based on the open DVB-H standards.
Posted to the site on 7th October 2008
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