About Mobile TV in China during olympics game

There are 2.1 million mobile TV users, including 250,000 paid-for subscriptions, at rates as low as $1.60 a month. In China video is the only killer application for 3G so far. Maybe this stats could seem so high, but we have to keep in mind that nowadays, China has more than 508 million users (July’07). So only 0,4% of users use this kind of 3G service, less than other countries such us UK, Italy, Germany or Spain.

Mobile TV is well recognized as an important service in China. Mobile TV services will be used officially during the Olympic 2008. MII and SARFT are taking care of the network building, Service Delivery platform, Charging, etc; to jointly provide the services.
CCSA ( China Communication Standards Association) is busy with the industrial standard making. CMCC and CU are busy with the mobile TV SDP trial. Platform vendors and Terminal vendors are working closely.

CCSA TC5, is responsible for the mobile TV standards drafting in CCSA.

Main responsible WG in TC5 is WG7 (Application&Service), other related WGs are WG4(CDMA), WG5(Security), WG8(Frequency), WG9(GSM/UMTS/TD-SCDMA).
–In WG4, BCMCS based on 3GPP2 DO release 0 enhance version, covering equipment, signalling, interface etc.
–In WG5, Security on WCDMA/TD-SCDMA MBMS service, and Security on CDMA2000 BCMCS service has been studied.
–In WG7, the general aspects of mobile TV system are being studied. Such as, General technical requirements for mobile multimedia service; Service Protection technical requirements of Mobile Multimedia Service;Terminal technical requirements of Mobile Multimedia Service, etc.
–In WG8, the available frequency for mobile TV in China, frequency resources for terrestrial Mobile TV system are being studied.
–In WG9, MBMS related topics are being studied