Alcatel to develop Mobile TV ecosystem
Alcatel has created a Mobile TV unit, Alcatel Mobile Broadcast. It will be headed by Olivier Coste, who was previously responsible for developing the company’s satellite activities. The French telecoms equipment company says that there is “significant consumer appetite for Mobile TV” over third-generation mobile.

But it adds that while current mobile networks enable the distribution of numerous TV channels, they have limitations in terms of global coverage and in the number of users that can receive these channels in the same cell. It intends to develop a mobile TV infrastructure or ecosystem and to sell it to mobile operators and broadcasters.