Japan names MediaFLO official mobile broadcast service

Wireless solutions provider Qualcomm announced that Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications has recognized its MediaFLO mobile broadcast platform as one the nation's two official technologies for mobile multimedia broadcasting services. MediaFLO joins ISDB-Tmm, an evolution of Japan's ISDB-T digital TV standard, as the sole mobile broadcast technologies recognized by the MIC for nationwide mobile TV services once spectrum is made available in 2011. Last year, the MIC approved two MediaFLO mobile TV trials in the VHF and UHF spectrum bands led by MediaFLO Japan Planning, a joint venture between Qualcomm and Japanese operator KDDI.

For more on MediaFLO's Japanese prospects:
- read this release

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