RadioScape has won contracts to supply DMB (Digital Multimedia Broadcast) infrastructure systems which will provide mobile TV services in China.

Already a supplier of DMB systems to various countries including China, Korea and for BT’s Movio trial in the UK, RadioScape is to supply a further five multiplexers to Chinese broadcasters  bringing the current total number of multiplexers to nine, some of which are already broadcasting DMB Mobile TV and DAB audio. 

“We are the leading provider of DMB broadcasting systems in China,” said John Hall, RadioScape’s CEO.  “We have been working closely with the major Chinese broadcasters over the past two years and, having won contracts with leading broadcasters in the major cities such as Beijing and Shanghai.”

The firm has systems that are broadcasting or shortly coming on stream at Beijing Jolon Digital Media Broadcasting, Shanghai Oriental Pearl (Group), Guangdong Yue Guang Digital Multimedia Broadcasting and others soon to be announced.
 
RadioScape has also supplied over twenty DAB/DMB Research and Test systems to Korea. “Korea is leading the world in Mobile TV,” said Hall.

“They have recognised that DMB provides a means of delivering Mobile TV now as it is based on proven working technology and spectrum is already available in most countries unlike rival technologies.  Korea has taken a dramatic lead in DMB in the same way that the UK leads in DAB,” said Hall.

Korean manufacturers have a ready and growing home market for their DMB handsets so that handsets are available in volume and at competitive prices for other countries as they deploy DMB-based Mobile TV.  For example, half a million have already been ordered to support the rollout of DMB in China.

For BT’s UK trial, RadioScape also supplied the terminal software as well as the broadcast infrastructure.

Other countries using the firm’s broadcast multiplexes, trial systems, and test equipment are Netherlands, Germany, France, Taiwan, Australia, Canada, the UK and Slovenia.