Taiwan’s Mobile Television Industrial Society is pushing for the development of handset-based mobile TV in the region. The digital TV operators will be adopting DVB-T standard and DVB-H specification.
Other platform standards such as Media Forward Link Only (MediaFLO) by Qualcomm, DAB (digital audio broadcasting) and WiMAX are also considered, according to the Computer & Communications Laboratories of the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI).
Mobile TV services will begin trial runs by the end of 2005. The official launch of the service is set in early 2006.
| System | Bandwidth Required per Average Audio Quality Radio Station kHz |
| Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) | 25 |
| Digital Video Broadcast-Handheld (DVB-H) | 39 |
| Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) | 60 |
| Digital Audio Broadcast (DAB) | 250 |
The Mobile Television Industrial Society was founded last August 2005 with sponsorship from the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA).
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