SES Americom and Crown Castle Mobile Media will deliver live TV t...
SES Americom and Crown Castle Mobile Media will deliver live TV to mobile handheld devices, officials from both companies said at the NAB conference in Las Vegas. Crown Castle said it has leased Ku-band capacity aboard SES’s AMC 9…
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satellite to reach satellite receivers across its planned DVB-H (digital video broadcast -- handheld) network. A Crown Castle spokeswoman said the company has begun testing the DVB-H network in 3 Pittsburgh markets. The collaboration is a first for SES’s satellite-based mobile platforms, which distribute data, TV and Internet to oil rigs, freight trucks, commercial jetliners and households -- but not to cell phones. An SES spokeswoman said the SES satellite backbone will distribute the TV signals to Crown Castle’s terrestrial infrastructure via Ku-band spectrum. Once received by Crown Castle’s wireless network, the signals will be transmitted over the 1670 MHz wireless frequency, a Crown Castle spokesman said. The spokesman said Crown Castle acquired a nationwide license for the spectrum, which wasn’t in commercial use, in a 2003 FCC auction. Mobile handsets that are capable of receiving the TV signals are in development by Nokia and others. Nokia officials said they anticipate DVB-H trials in 2005, with wide scale marketing during 2006.