Article: Dish to test satellite-based mobile TVs; Alcatel-Lucent to provide DVB-SH network kit at 700 MHz.(News)

Byline: MATT KAPKO

Dish Network Corp. isn't wasting time as it considers what technology might be the best fit for spectrum it recently won in the 700 MHz auction. The company partnered with Alcatel-Lucent to test DVB-SH mobile TV broadcast technology with equipment, tools and training provided by infrastructure vendor.

Dish said the DVB-SH trial will take place in its lab in Atlanta beginning next month, and it hopes to validate the performance and cost-efficiency of the technology by August.

DVB-SH - a variant of the terrestrial DVB-H mobile TV standard - relies on satellite delivery, yet it's largely unproven (only satellite radio can be pointed to as a similar ...

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