RIYADH: Etihad Etisalat (Mobily) is testing its upcoming Digital Video Broadcast to Handheld (DVB-H) service.
The company is trying out broadcasting eight popular satellite TV channels in Jeddah, in a joint trial with the Ministry of Culture and Information of the infant service.
Mobily said that its customers in Jeddah can now receive live feeds of Saudi TV’s Channel 1 and Sport, MBC’s 1, 2 and 3, Alarabiya news channel, CNBC Arabic and children’s favorite Spacetoon in high definition.
The trial service will not be available to subscribers of other operators.
Khalid Al-Kaf, Mobily’s CEO, said that DVB-H is slowly but surely permeating the international telecom sector.