No need to mandate DVB-H says Commissioner Reding in PolicyTracker interview

The European Commission today released a mobile TV Communication in which European Information Society Commissioner Viviane Reding appeared to back away from her earlier threat to mandate DVB-H as the single European standard.

Commissioner Reding gives the strongest possible support to the technology and urges member states to do the same, but stopped short of calling for DVB-H to be mandated. This is a softening of the position stated in March, when Commissioner Reding said DVB-H would be made compulsory by the summer unless industry voluntarily agreed its own single standard.

Read the full details at:

http://www.policytracker.com/alerts.php?tact=587