New Consortium Looks to Drive Asian Mobile TV Take-up

HONG KONG, December 8: A Pan Asian Mobile TV consortium has
been formed with the view to accelerating the rollout of mobile TV services
across the continent.

The consortium’s members are the Korean mobile
communications company SK Telecom, Toshiba, content aggregator Glocal Media and
International Mobile Broadcasting, the holder of Asian mobile TV licenses and
spectrum. The consortium will be working with Asian mobile operators to begin
trials early next year.