Nokia, Intel, Moto, etc. form Mobile DTV Alliance group

Maybe some of the higher ups at Nokia, Intel, Motorola, Texas Instruments, and Crown Castle's Modeo unit caught wind of our DTV series last week (peep Part I, Part II, and Part III here), because today they made apparent their belief in strength in numbers by announcing a DVB-H advocacy group called the Mobile DTV Alliance, bent on -- get this -- making DVB-H the standard for terrestrial mobile digital broadcasts in the US. Will they stick it to Qualcomm and MediaFlo despite Verizon's expanding support? Well, it never looks good for the other guy when you roll up with a posse, but let's just see some actual rollout first, okay?

[xbit Posted Jan 23rd 2006 10:50AM]

That's a pretty strong group of companies and I hope that they win.

The consumer always loses out when a single company owns a technology, especially when Qualcomm is involved.