First DVB-H Trial Balloon Flies in U.S.

I don’t understand the technicalities of it, but I know spectrum is a huge policy issue and this could have big implications for media companies…A bold stroke by a Houston-based company Crown Castle could establish the U.S. as the first nation with digital mobile TV broadcasting based on DVB-H, or Digital Video Broadcast-Handheld, a system originally developed in Europe.

Crown Castle’s spectrum coup comes as portable television, radio, broadcast multimedia and wireless Internet services are all vying to reach handheld terminals for content delivery.

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