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Paris/Helsinki (pte028/09.03.2005/12:30) - The French CANAL+ Group http://www.canalplus.fr , SFR http://www.sfr.fr , Finnish telecoms giants Nokia http://www.nokia.com and French company towerCast http://www.towercast.fr have been co-operating closely in the past few months to prepare the launch of a pilot project for mobile television using DVB-Handheld technology. As the companies report, the partnership has created the first structured, operational organisation dedicated to piloting the technology as quickly as possible. The project is said to leverage each partner's core competencies: CANAL+ Group in television content, SFR in telephone service, Nokia in phone manufacture and towerCast in broadcasting.
On behalf of the partnership, CANAL+ Group confirmed its application to France's television regulator (CSA) for authorisation to test the technology on an over-the-air frequency for a period of nine months. The application was made last January at a hearing attended by the four partners. Scheduled to begin in the second quarter of 2005 with more than 500 users, the pilot will include technical experiments to define broadcast and reception parameters as well as consumer tests to study content, plus business and marketing models for the new technology.
Other partners, including television companies, mobile phone operators and mobile DVB-H terminal manufacturers, have been invited to take part and will reportedly join the pilot phase in the near future. The partners are said to want to develop a new TV broadcasting system for mobile terminals - especially mobile phones - alongside 3G and other mobile phone technologies.
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