Germany's Mobilcom Launches Mobile TV Offer Based on DMB

(с) MocoNews

According to a German-language press release, Mobilcom has tied up with Mobiles Fernsehen Deutschland GmbH (MFD), which has secured spectrum from local media authorities to broadcast TV signals to mobile phones using the DMB (Digital Multimedia Broadcast) standard. MoCoNews recently reported that German operators E-Plus, O2, T-Mobile and Vodafone have all thrown their weight behind the competing DVB-H standard for their mobile TV services.
MFD also collaborates with Debitel, a mobile service provider and the country's number three, after T-Mobile and Vodafone, in terms of subscribers.
Mobilcom's "watcha" offer (available immediately) provides subscribers in 12 major cities (Berlin, Dortmund, Frankfurt, Gelsenkirchen, Hamburg, Hanover, Cologne, Leipzig, Munich, Nuremberg, Saarbruecken und Stuttgart) with programming from four local television channels (ZDF, N24, MTV Music and EntertainmentTV, a station broadcasting made-for-mobile content from Germany's television stations Sat.1 and ProSieben) for a flat monthly price of €8.95. In addition, subscribers can access bigFM2see, a visual radio service that provides users access to broadcast radio and simultaneous information about the songs played and the stations playing them. (This service is not from Nokia – just similar to it.) A Mobilcom spokesperson told me that mobile search, and an option for users to buy what they find, is in the pipeline.