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“Digitenne aims to provide wholesale DVB-H services to the various mobile operators in The Netherlands” explains Marc van Dijk, head of Business Development for Digitenne, the provider of the commercial digital terrestrial TV services in the Netherlands. “We have chosen bmcoforum’s implementation profile for OMA BCAST so that the mobile operators have the flexibility to run their own Mobile TV business without losing interoperability. Furthermore the baseline profile of OMA BCAST will allow content providers to develop Mobile TV content that can be used for the whole market.”

“Ericsson sees that TV is significantly changing as it evolves from linear TV to personalised and interactive TV. We support open solutions with a common approach for Mobile TV delivery across 3G networks over HSPA and MBMS as well as in other broadcast networks”, says Claes ????dman, head of Multimedia Solutions at Ericsson. “Now, with the OMA BCAST enabler, this is possible in an interoperable manner, allowing the combination of Mobile TV based on Unicast and Broadcast services. The bmcoforum profile will help tremendously in accelerating the deployment and roll-out of such services.”

“KPN very much welcomes the bmcoforum initiative to profile the OMA standard. Having an agreed baseline for Mobile TV technology will help us deliver a compelling interactive TV service to our customers. The Mobile TV market has had to wait for a clear technological direction. This important agreement should help all players in the Mobile TV market to speed up the delivery of attractive services on a growing range of affordable, high quality handsets,” says Franklin Selgert, innovation manager KPN.