Mobile TV - Nagra confirms its leadership
The Kudelski Group has supported mobile phone operators since the early commercial deployments of mobile TV services. Its Nagra Mobile solution is used by Italian operators H3G, TIM and Vodafone who were the world's first operators to introduce mobile TV services on secure DVB-H networks.
In 2007, the Group consolidated its position as the mobile TV market leader by winning several new deals in Europe, the United States and Asia. A significant new step was made in 2008 when the Group's technology was selected by China Satellite Mobile Broadcast Limited (CSM), a company held under the Administrative Bureau of China's State Administration of Radio, Cinema and Television (SARFT) as the conditional access provider for its nationwide mobile TV service CMMB (China Mobile MultimediaBroadcasting) that was launched for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
For Kudelski, innovating means delivering creative solutions enabling operators to enhance and extend their offering
Nagra Mobile on all standards
A leader in mobile TV on DVB-H with over 95% market share in terms of number of users, a pioneer on the STiMi standard with the deployment in China, Nagravision is further extending its footprint in the mobile television market with developments on the DVB-SH and MediaFLO standards.
The DVB-SH broadcasting technology enables the delivery of content from the satellite directly to the mobile phone. This market offers good growth prospects as the European Commission is expected to grant European-wide broadcasting licenses to a number of satellite operators. These will sell their services to television operators as well as to mobile telecommunications companies. Nagravision has supported two major DVB-SH trials: Solaris Mobile (Eutelsat / SES Astra), the leading provider of satellite networks for next generation mobile services, and ICO Global Communications Ltd. in the United States. ICO is developing an advanced hybrid system combining satellite and terrestrial communication services to offer voice, data and Internet throughout the United States on portable devices. Furthermore, in 2007, Nagravision was the first conditional access company in the world to comply with the MediaFLO standard.
MicroSD cards: bridges between connected and non-connected devices
The secure Nagravision MicroSD card is fully integrated with the Nagra Mobile conditional access solution. The card offers consumers a bridge between their connected mobile phones and their unconnected devices such as personal navigation devices and portable media players, providing full portability for both live access and recorded content. The Nagra Mobile conditional access system delivered to China Mobile also integrates MicroSD cards.