BBC and ITV team up to launch mobile television
This is rather clever. By teaming up together to endorse and develop a joint mobile TV project, the BBC and ITV are establishing such a service ahead of the analogue TV switchoff, therefore significantly reducing the chances of anyone else being motivated enough to bid for any of the newly freed bandwidth for mobile TV purposes.
The result? There's potentially more room available for the development of high definition digital terrestrial television services, as long as the spare space isn't just given over to more quiz channels. And a UK standard for mobile TV broadcasting is established in the process.
