Transportable television

Overview
Some technologies use terrestrial links to bring broadcast television transmissions from satellites to cell phones (transportable television). Frequencies used include 1.5 GHz, 2.2 GHz and 2.5 GHz.

In the United States, Qualcomm and Intel are among the companies developing 4G technologies that include TV broadcasts to mobiles. Qualcomm provides a proprietary technology called MediaFlo that is being incorporated into next-generation mobile services from AT&T and Verizon Wireless. U.S. standards that would support broadcasting to mobile or handheld TV are A-VSB and &mdash; being developed by ATSC9 &mdash; a standard based on digital TV.

In Europe, handset manufacturer Nokia supports the mobile TV standard DVB-H, which uses broadcast spectrum.

Source

 * Wireless Technology and Spectrum Demand: Advanced Wireless Services, at CRS-4.