DVB-H was formally adopted as ETSI standard EN 302 304 in November 2004.
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13 Facts About DVB-H
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From March 2008, DVB-H is officially endorsed by the European Union as the "preferred technology for terrestrial mobile broadcasting".
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DVB-H has been a commercial failure, and the service is no longer on-air.
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DVB-H technology is a superset of the successful DVB-T system for digital terrestrial television, with additional features to meet the specific requirements of handheld, battery-powered receivers.
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In 2002 four main requirements of the DVB-H system were agreed: broadcast services for portable and mobile usage with 'acceptable quality'; a typical user environment, and so geographical coverage, as mobile radio; access to service while moving in a vehicle at high speed ; and as much compatibility with existing digital terrestrial television, to allow sharing of network and transmission equipment.
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DVB-H can offer a downstream channel at high data rates which can be used as standalone or as an enhancement of mobile telecommunication networks which many typical handheld terminals are able to access anyway.
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DVB-H is a technical system which was carefully tested by the DVB-H Validation Task Force in the course of 2004.
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In Finland, the license to operate a DVB-H network was awarded to Digita, but the service was closed in March 2012.
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In Switzerland DVB-H is available since the start of UEFA Euro 2008 thanks to Swisscom.
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In Germany the future of DVB-H is still unknown due to continuous issues with the license and open questions about the business model, in particular which role operators play in it and if they are willing to do so.
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In Estonia, DVB-H service started testing phase in April 2008 with Levira and EMT, offering up to 15 TV-stations.
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In Jamaica, DVB-H service was launched by telecoms provider LIME in 2010 in the capital city Kingston and its Metropolitan Area.
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At the NAB show in April 2012, Peter Siebert of Europe's DVB Project Office said DVB-H did not succeed because so few devices were available, mainly because content producers would not subsidize them.
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