T-Mobile Czech Republic Sues Over DVB-H Licenses
By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 29 May 2007 12:59 AM PST
T-Mobile Czech Republic has announced plans to sue the Czech Radio and Television Broadcasting Council (RRTV) because it wasn’t awarded one of two licenses for a DVB-H service...they went to music television station Óčko and Christian broadcaster Proglas reports Czech Business Weekly. It’s against the law for a telco to broadcast content (its own or from someone else) so RRTV couldn’t really give it a license anyway—T-Mobile said it was suing in an attempt to change the law. A new law is underway, but it only allows operators to broadcast other people’s content rather than their own, which T-Mobile is displeased with since it rules out the telco developing its own interactive services. T-Mobile has already run a successful trial of DVB-H (the average length of each single mobile TV viewing was 20 minutes, and 80 percent of the test participants watched the services at least once daily) and said that it is ready with the technology, it just needs a change in the law to implement it.
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