Australian incumbent Telstra is adopting a “wait-and-see” approach to mobile TV, writes AP via AustralianIT. Justin Milne, the managing director of Telstra broadband service BigPond, said it was up to the government for the time frame of launching the technology commercially in Australia. “We need the spectrum, the licences and the legislation and we don’t have any of that at the moment…All we have is the spectrum broadly identified.”
It’s an odd stance to take for a company that normally hypes up everything it does, although it could be in order to downplay mobile broadcast TV technology to make Telstra’s current service over the network look better. It could also be in order to try and cool off interest in the Austalian spectrum auction due later this year.
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