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What are the main technological options?

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What are the main technological options?

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Currently in Europe there are three main technology families for delivering broadcast content to mobile terminals: 1. Cellular broadcast such as the MBMS (Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service) extension to the third generation mobile phone standard, UMTS; 2. Terrestrial digital broadcast networks and their extensions, such as DVB-H (DVB transmission to handheld terminals, based on the terrestrial digital TV standard DVB-T; T-DMB (Terrestrial Digital Multimedia Broadcasting, based on the terrestrial Digital Audio Broadcast standard, DAB; MediaFLO (Media Forward Link Only); 3. Hybrid satellite/terrestrial systems, such as DVB-SH which is part of the DVB family of standards. Although mobile TV is already available on existing cellular infrastructures (3G/UMTS) in one-to-one (unicast) mode, broadcast is much better to deliver the same content to many users at the same time. This would help achieve mass-market deployment. Researchers are also working on a common internet–based framework t

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