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MultiChoice Selects Intelsat for South African Mobile TV Trial |
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa, March 15, 2007/Satnews Daily/ ― MultiChoice, a leading South African direct-to-home (DTH) television provider, said Intelsat will support its mobile broadcast TV trial in the metropolitan areas of Johannesburg, Soweto, Pretoria and Cape Town. The trial seeks to refine the transmission of Digital Video Broadcasting to Handheld (DVB-H) technology, and understand more about the viewing patterns and content preferences of subscribers for mobile TV.
From its headquarters in Randburg, South Africa, MultiChoice is uplinking 10 to 12 trial channels of sports, entertainment, news, music and specially developed “made for mobile” content to Intelsat’s IS-902 satellite, which then distributes the content to multiple terrestrial transmitter sites throughout the trial region.
“Although mobile broadcast TV is in its infancy, we believe that there will be a growing demand for it in South Africa in the near future; especially in light of the 2010 World Cup,” said Gerdus van Eeden, MultiChoice chief technology officer. “Intelsat has long partnered with us in the expansion of our services, and we are confident that its network will continue to support us as we develop our mobile TV platform.”
Stephen Spengler, Intelsat senior vice president, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific Sales, said the company was proud to work with MultiChoice on this important trial. “Enabling innovative applications is an essential aspect of Intelsat’s strategy to create customer value and to grow demand for satellite-based services. This project represents Intelsat’s third mobile video application, as we are supporting systems that are in commercial deployment in Europe and in the United States”. Intelsat is a major provider of fixed satellite services worldwide and a leading provider of these services to the media, network services/telecom and government customer sectors, enabling people and businesses constant access to information and entertainment.
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