October 7, 2008

Qatar Preps for Mobile TV Service

Qatar Telecom (Qtel) and Nokia Siemens Networks have signed a commercial mobile TV deployment contract based on DVB-H and OMA BCast Smart Card Profile technology. OMA BCast SCP is designed to let mobile operators integrate the management rights for mobile TV broadcast content, provided via DVB-H, into their existing infrastructure. The mobile TV solution includes software, hardware, consulting and integration, network design and implementation services. For the authentication of mobile TV subscribers, Nokia Siemens Networks is providing its One-BSF solution, forming part of Qtel's Unified Subscriber Database strategy for creating a common subscriber profile to be used for both mobile and DVB-H service.