Finland offers first European mobile digital television license

0 Comments | AFP, November, 2005

HELSINKI (AFP) — The Finnish government has launched a tender process for Europe's first mobile digital television licence with the aim that it will "lay the groundwork for a new type of content service market".

"The government wants to actively encourage new innovations and create a favorable environment for Finnish enterprises," Transport and Communications Minister Susanna Huovinen said in a statement.

"The technological development has reached a suitable stage and there is no reason to delay," she added.

The company that lands the licence for mobile television broadcasts and services will be responsible for transmitting television-type programs, short videos and games that "could be received with mobile terminals in a moving car, for example", the...