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Cheat Sheet: Mobile TV
Cheat Sheet The ending was not a happy one either: the service is now defunct as BT pulled the plug on Movio. Virgin Mobile jumped bravely into the bona fide mobile telly world last year using a wholesale offering from BT known as... [22 Nov 2007]
BT pulls plug on mobile TV service
News On Thursday, Virgin Mobile, the only customer for BT Movio, announced it was to stop broadcasting the service at the start of next year. A statement from the company said: "BT can confirm that following a review of its... [27 Jul 2007]
Brussels calls for mobile TV unity
News It's not the only standard that has been used in Blighty: BT has chosen DAB-IP for its Movio service and Sky has dabbled with Qualcomm's MediaFLO. The EC has recommended the industry pick a single mobile TV standard - or... [19 Mar 2007]
Mobile telly experiment hits Dublin
News The UK got its first deployment of broadcast services earlier this year when Virgin Mobile began offering BT's Movio product. O2 has launched its second trial of mobile telly using the DVB-H standard championed by Nokia. [08 Mar 2007]
No more mobile telly for the UK?
News The UK currently has just one broadcast mobile TV offering, from BT Movio and Virgin Mobile, using the DAB-IP standard. Despite what participants claim are two successful trials of mobile TV in the UK, no more commercial... [13 Feb 2007]
Re:Viewing 2006: The year in mobile and wireless
News The telco launched its Movio service over DAB-IP, with Virgin Mobile as the first customer. It also saw the launch of mobile TV, some fetching handsets and plenty of 'free' services. Jo Best looks back - and makes some... [15 Dec 2006]
Mobile telly finally launches in UK
News Using a wholesale offering from BT known as Movio, Virgin customers will be able to get square-eyed on the move from 1 October, with a handful of TV channels and a raft of digital radio. According to Emma Lloyd, MD of BT... [07 Sep 2006]
China to show Olympics on mobile telly
News BT's wholesale broadcast TV service for phones, Movio, will also use the standard and is expected to roll out in the coming months. Despite the fact 3G licences are yet to be distributed in the country, China is... [22 Aug 2006]
Virgin to do UK mobile telly first
News Virgin Mobile is on track to launch the UK's first true mobile broadcast TV service, a rebadged version of BT's Movio product, in the summer. Movio, which completed a successful trial earlier in the... [10 Jul 2006]
World Cup kicks off $300m mobile TV bonanza
News TV clip downloads have been a staple of mobile companies for some time but several are already banking on broadcast as the way forward - O2, for example, is trialling a service with Nokia; Virgin Mobile is buying telly in wholesale from... [07 Jun 2006]
Bristol given first look at new Orange mobile telly
News Unlike other mobile TV technologies such as DVB-H, currently under examination by O2 in Oxford, and DAB-IP, the basis of the BT Movio service, TDtv needs no new broadcast infrastructure. Orange will be the first operator... [16 Feb 2006]
BT's mobile TV: More than Virgin's
News However, according to BT Movio MD Emma Lloyd, BT is in discussions with a "number of operators" over rolling out the service. The first mobile TV handset to use the Movio service was also unveiled at the... [15 Feb 2006]
BT and Virgin get together for UK's first mobile TV service
News The BT Movio service, formerly known as BT Livetime, will see its first commercial outing this summer, following a four-month trial with 1,000 participants in the M25 area. BT Movio will initially only... [12 Jan 2006]
