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MOBILE TV USING DIGITAL MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST (DMB) SERVICES
Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
—Karl Marx
8.1 INTRODUCTION TO DMB SERVICES
A new era began in May 2005 when world’s first broadcast mobile TV services went live in Korea with the launch of S-DMB services. The T-DMB services were soon to follow, being launched in December 2005. The DMB services were the culmination of many years of work in designing of protocols, air interfaces, and chip sets, which would enable the broadcasting of multimedia to mobile devices. Prior to this the only unicast mobile TV was available through 3G networks with their attendant constraints. The T-DMB services also preceded the DVB-H services in terms of launch in commercial networks. ...
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