In a bid to boost mobile TV adoption across the European Union, the European Commission (EC) is to produce a set of guides to national regulators.

In what is one of the first of its kind in the AsiaPac region, Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) has launched a mobile TV service using Nokia Siemens Networks' Mobile TV streaming solution.

Skyworks Solutions, a provider of analogue and mixed signal semiconductors enabling mobile connectivity, is supplying Samsung with essential technology across its new range of 3G handsets, including what it claims is the first mobile TV slider phone for Europe.

Swiss TV broadcasting system operator Swisscom Broadcast AG has selected NEC NEC Deutschland GmbH (NEC) to establish a DVB-H broadcasting network scheduled to commence operation in four major Swiss cities in time for the European football championship 2008.

Only weeks after successfully bidding for wireless spectrum, Dish Networks has confirmed the huge welter of subsequent industry rumour that it is to enter into partnerships in order to realise its ambitions in the mobile TV market.

Almost automatically following the announcement that Samsung and LG were to jointly develop a mobile TV standard, leading technology and standards bodies have announced their full support for the venture.

In what is an unprecedented act between two hitherto highly competitive firms, Korean electronics giants LG and Samsung have signed an agreement to develop a new standard for mobile TTV technology in North America.

Single-chip mobile TV solutions provider Telegent Systems has signed a deal to supply Gionee Communication Equipment, a provider of mobile phone solutions to China's domestic market, with technology to support the announced availability of a free-to-air TV handset.

Dilithium, a provider of high-quality multimedia delivery over mobile and broadband networks, has announced the Dilithium Content Adapter (DCA), a high capacity and scalable solution that automates the real-time adaptation and delivery of video content over multiple networks to any device.