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Who they are, what they doand why you need to hear their thoughts on live TV to mobiles All the companies/organisations listed below (in alphabetical order) are represented by senior executives at the Cable & Satellite International Annual Mobile TV Summit - Achieving competitive advantage in the digital content revolution. Irdeto Irdeto offers a broad range of solutions to protect all mobile content -from ringtones to live video broadcast, ranging from proprietary and OMA standard based DRM clients and servers to Conditional Access for mobile broadcasting (DVB-H, T-DMB and DMB-S). In 2005 Irdeto delivered the conditional access system for the world’s first mobile multimedia broadcasting (DMB-S) for TU Media in South Korea. Irdeto Mobile. The future of Mobile TV. Today. Arqiva Arqiva (formerly NTL Broadcast) operates analogue and digital terrestrial TV networks and the commercial DAB network in the UK. The company is one of the major partners in the UK’s first DVB-H based mobile phone TV trials, starting in Oxford this September with 350 users and a 16-channel programme line-up with content from BSkyB, Discovery Networks Europe, Shorts International and Turner Broadcasting. Arqiva is responsible for the content aggregation, multiplex management and DVB-H transmission system, and it has ambitions to build any UK DVB-H network. The company champions the wholesale model whereby a multimedia broadcast network operator/multiplex manager makes a multi-channel TV package available for various mobile phone operators to use. The company is also a partner in the BT Livetime/Virgin Mobile DAB-based mobile TV trials in the UK this summer. O2 O2 will be the first UK mobile phone operator to pilot TV to handhelds using the DVB-H multimedia broadcasting transmission standard when it takes part in the Oxford trials starting this September. The company is working with Arqiva and Nokia to deliver a 16-channel live television line-up to 350 subscribers hand picked by O2. The company has been an active supporter of DVB-H as a delivery mechanism for this type of service and has clear views on the role of interactivity and location-based services for this new medium. It currently delivers news, sports and music video clips to subscribers of O2 Active, including over its 3G network. Preiskel & Co. LLP Preiskel & Co. LLP is a specialist City law firm, recommended by the Legal 500, that specialises in the telecoms sector and is recognised for its work in media and technology. It has advised major international and national wireless and fixed telecoms operators, European PTTs, mobile application and service providers and alternative carriers, plus cable operators, satellite operators and ISPs. The company has strong experience in obtaining fixed and wireless licenses or regulatory approvals and recent instructions include regulatory advice for a major international UK TV broadcaster, Harris Broadcast Communications
Division In addition to HD, Harris leads in Mobile and IPTV with wide-ranging products that help customers transition to these new digital-media markets. |
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