European Commission standardizes on DVB-H, Nokia dances jig on Qualcomm's grave

As expected, the European Commission just did the obvious and made the EU's de facto DVB-H standard, standard. The move is expected to accelerate the deployment of mobile television services across Europe in the same way that GSM standardization in the early 90s gave Europe a head-start on backwater cellular locations like North America. So get outta Dodge Qualcomm and South Korea with your MediaFLO and DMB mobile television technologies, you aren't welcome around Brussels anymore.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 18th 2008 10:04AM]

OMG!

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 18th 2008 10:08AM]

OMG!

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 18th 2008 3:00PM]

Shorty Get Loose!

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 18th 2008 3:32PM]

A needed move, which should have probably been done even before.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 19th 2008 9:02PM]

love the way the article is written-- the US carriers need a kick ass regulator like the EU has.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 19th 2008 7:38PM]

why on earth do our north american carriers have to always do things differently? *sigh* so much for importing the next gen of phones and being able to use all of their features. with 850/1900/1700/700/mediaflo we are truely the oddballs of the world. just great.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 19th 2008 6:55AM]

I think it's great that I live in a country where we have a choice of transmission formats, instead of that pesky standardization. I hope the EU figures out that what's important is not that the customer gets a choice of service providers, but that the service providers can choose whatever incompatible formats they want. See also: Sirius -vs- XM, Motorola -vs- Scientific Atlanta. Look for Coke and Pepsi to introduce incompatible bottles and proprietary vending machines sometime in 2010.

[(Unverified) Posted May 17th 2008 12:38PM]

Strange that in Europe we actually have a greater choice of phones and services though ;)

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 19th 2008 5:50PM]

NOOO!

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 19th 2008 5:50PM]

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[(Unverified) Posted Mar 19th 2008 7:44PM]

awesome comment

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 19th 2008 7:46PM]

weird. that was supposed to be a reply to eric. i hope replies didn't break again