“Nokia warmly welcomes the industry agreement for the end-to-end implementation profile that caters for both DVB-H and 3G solutions,” says Jouni K????m????r????inen, Director, Multimedia, Nokia. “We see a strong parallel to the early days of development of GSM. The great commitment in the industry for a clear implementation profile will be followed by common test practices that will create a coherent and open market for successful worldwide DVB-H deployments. The bmcoforum implementation profile of the OMA BCAST standard is essential in launching Mobile TV services on a global scale.”

“NXP Semiconductors, as a provider of complete ‘TV on Mobile System Solutions’, fully endorses the efforts of the bmcoforum and supports the production of the bmcoforum implementation profile based on OMA BCAST specification. We see clear industry and customer demand for such an activity and we welcome the opportunity to align our system solution development by combining our 3G mobile phone and integrated DVB-H TV on Mobile reference receivers with the bmcoforum derived OMA BCAST implementation profile,” said Kees Joosse, Senior Director, Business Development, BL-Personal Entertainment Solutions, NXP Semiconductors.

“We at Nokia Siemens Networks believe that a fast and successful Mobile TV market requires timely availability of interoperable implementations,” says Dr. Thomas Werner, Head of the Business Line Applications in the Business Unit Service Core & Applications at Nokia Siemens Networks. “Many operators use an incremental approach to introduce Mobile TV services. In this context, the bmcoforum profile of the OMA BCAST standard helps speed up implementation and interoperability testing. Starting with basic functionality and enabling more standardised features as the market develops, this profile has the potential to provide a future-proof path towards feature-rich Mobile TV services, delivered over DVB-H, MBMS and Unicast networks alike.”