Both 3 Italia and Mediaset have vowed to have a DVB-H service operating in Italy in time for the FIFA World Cup, and to run content on the event. That’s only a couple of weeks away, so they’re cutting it pretty fine…
The article also questions how incipient providers of mobile TV intent to provide the service in Italy, claiming there is a strong suggestion the two companies will be working together. “H3G has said its service will start with 20 TV channels rising to 30 in 2007, and 40 in 2008, and for that it sound like both sets of spectrum will be required given that with DVB-H, up to 16 channels have been tried out in a single 8MHz slice of spectrum, so at least twice this spectrum will be needed for the amount of channels anticipated.”
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–3 Buys TV Station
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