Media&Broadcast brings cell phone TV to Dubai
Friday, August 3rd, 2007DVB-H project implemented within four months
Media&Broadcast, a subsidiary of T-Systems, has been commissioned by the company Tecom Investments to set up a cell phone TV network on the basis of DVB-H for the capital city of Dubai. During the test phase, which is sched-uled to run until the end of 2007, users can receive 12 TV channels on their cell phones and mobile end-devices free of charge. The media service provider got the components ready for operation ahead of time in Germany and then delivered them to be comprehensively tested in the Persian Gulf. The three broadcasting stations in the city of Dubai are able to use these components to reach around 600,000 inhabitants in a coverage area of 300 km2. The plan is to expand the network at the beginning of 2008. This is the second successful turn-key project in the Middle East following the launch of cell phone TV in Qatar in November 2006.
Media&Broadcast, together with Rohde & Schwarz, planned and set up the common frequency network within four months. In this type of network, all broadcasting stations use the same frequency for their transmissions. This increases transmission security and the coverage area. The signals from the central play-out station are transmitted via satellite. This will enable the system to be cost-efficiently expanded for country-wide cover-age at a later date.
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