U Mobile will be offering a new mobile service to the market, its the digital TV broadcast that is accessible via your mobile. Globally, there are only a few operators that had started this service offering and Europe is doing some trials to finalize the vendor for their service roll-out.
I had the opportunity to take DVB-H for a test drive. First and foremost, to have this service, you need devices that are DVB-H compatible... its a hardware requirement, not software driven. For the test, I have been given a Nokia device, the N77. I will take some session out to do some write up on the device later, but for now,... lets focus on the service.
U Mobile has an approximate 6 channels on trial at the moment. It offers the free-to-air television channels available at the moment like TV3, 8TV and NTV7. In addition, it has two own channels, Channel News Asia and a MTV like channel, Trace.
The service is easy to set up, just plug in the SIM card into the phone and hit the dedicated button on the phone for your DVB-H to load the channels and choose your viewing. The video image is sharp and with very good resolution.
With the phone with me, I mounted a phone holder and drove around enjoying the news feed as well as the music channel while being stuck in the daily traffic congestion. Surprisingly, the coverage within town area is rather extensive. I have driven from town center, all the way to Gombak without any service interruption.. impressive.
Here is a snapshot of my phone set-up.
And an added note... the service is not affected by rain.
I have also noticed that there are some threads in popular forums such as lowyat.net that discusses this topic at length. I am so looking forward to see the development on this.
3 comments:
Actually i looking forward to use the service but the Umobile havent announce any news regarding the service charge and other details, i believe that u working at Umobile because u got opportunity to "test drive", so may i know when this service will be launch officially? Thanks
Hi Denell,
Actually, u mobile's service is already available. True, they have not done any official launch, but there are many phone shop around Sg Wang and Low Yat selling the service.
I was on Jalan Pudu the other day to drop by Maybank to withdraw money from the ATM, surprisingly, there are also small shops along the shop houses that sells the phone and service package.
Thanks for your reply, i looking forward to subscribe this service, hopefully it will cost lower than the 3G service.
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