East Asia In 2002, South Korea was the first country to introduce commercial mobile TV via
2G CDMA IS95-C, and
3G (
CDMA2000 1X
EVDO) networks. In 2007, the Advanced Television Systems Committee and the
Consumer Electronics Association created an MDTV and began identifying compatible products as "MDTV". White House officials and members of
Congress saw a demonstration on July 28, 2009 from
Ion Media in conjunction with the
Open Mobile Video Coalition. Another demonstration took place October 16, 2009 with journalists, industry executives and broadcasters riding around Washington, D.C., in a bus with prototype devices. Included were those who would be testing the devices in the Washington and Baltimore markets in January 2010. In 2009, the Open Mobile Video Coalition began testing with four stations:
WATL,
WPXA-TV,
KOMO-TV, and
KONG-TV. In 2009, FCC chair
Julius Genachowski announced an effort to increase the spectrum available to wireless services. Also in August,
WTVE and
Axcera began testing a
single-frequency network (SFN) with multiple transmitters using the new mobile standard. In December 2009, Concept Enterprises introduced the first mobile DTV tuner for automobiles. On September 23, 2010, Media General began its first MDTV service at
WCMH-TV in
Columbus, Ohio and had plans to do the same a month later at
WFLA-TV in the
Tampa Bay, Florida area in addition to five to seven more stations in its portfolio. On November 19, 2010, a joint venture of 12 major broadcasters known as the
Mobile Content Venture (MCV) announced plans to upgrade TV stations in 20 markets representing 40 percent of the United States population to deliver live video to portable devices by the end of 2011. , there were 120 stations in the United States broadcasting using the
ATSC-M/H "Mobile DTV" standard. By early 2013, 130 stations were providing content, but the adoption of devices such as
dongles was not widespread. In January 2012, the MCV announced that
MetroPCS would offer MCV's Dyle mobile DTV service.
Samsung planned an
Android phone capable of receiving this service late in 2012. At the end of 2012, Dyle was in 35 markets and capable of reaching 55 percent of viewers. According to the home page on its website, "As of May 22, 2015, Dyle mobile TV is no longer in service, and Dyle-enabled devices and their apps will no longer be supported." As of 2023, WNUV CW 54, a NextGen TV station in Baltimore, is broadcasting in a format called MobileW at 480p resolution for cell phone reception.
Europe BT launched mobile TV in the United Kingdom in September 2006, but the services were abandoned in less than a year. Germany had a failed endeavor with MFD Mobiles Fernsehen Deutschland, which launched their
DMB-based service in June 2006 in Germany, but ended it in April 2008. Also in June 2006, mobile operator 3 in Italy (part of
Hutchison Whampoa) launched their mobile TV service, but in contrast to Germany's MFD it was based on the European
DVB-H standard. == Standards ==