MediaFLO, DMB Groups, Others Cry Foul Play in Europe

Adding to its patent woes in the US, Qualcomm received a setback in Europe, too, last week, when the European Commission endorsed DVB-H — and not Qualcomm’s MediaFLO technology — as the single standard for mobile television deployments in the region, and said it would start to mandate rollouts, including spectrum allocation, for the services to finally get off the ground.

Unsurprisingly, the FLO Forum — a Qualcomm-backed consortium of vendors, content providers and operators — issued a statement saying the decision to back one standard could stall the development of “a healthy European mobile TV ecosystem,” and that the market, not the government, should decide what works best. The WorldDMB has also weighed in with its response: “[We] continue to be mystified by the Commission

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