2006 Launch For DVB-H Services In Italy Announced

07/10/2005

Telecom Italia Mobile (TIM) and media group Mediaset announced yesterday an agreement to broadcast live television to mobile phones from 2006 using DVB-H technology. TIM said it would provide broadcasts of Mediaset's three TV channels and football on its top-of-the-range mobile phones for five years from 2006. This follows reports that Verizon will also begin DVB-H services across the USA next year using a network built and operated by Crown Castle.