Malaysia, Central Region
- Klang Valley with extensive coverage in most shopping malls, high-rise
commercial and residential areas.
PARTICIPATING
COMPANIES
U Mobile Sdn. Bhd.
Commercial understanding with Nokia Siemens Networks, Rohde &
Schwarz, Speedcast HK Ltd, TraceTV, BloombergTV, Channel News
Asia (Singapore)
Trial agreement with Radio Television Malaysia and Media Prima
for Free-To-Air Channels
CONTACT
For DVB related information,
please contact Dr. Kay Ti Tan (U Mobile Sdn. Bhd.)
http://corporate.u.com.my/
SERVICE
LAUNCH DATE
Service was launched
during 2007
SUBSCRIBERS
/ USERS
Trial service started
since September 2007 with more than 2500 active users
Nokia N77 has been sold successfully in the market, followed by
Samsung P930 several months back.
BUSINESS
MODEL
PayTV services; providing
FOUR Free-To-Air Channels to seed the consumer interests and Subscription
based for FOUR Premium Channels
SERVICE
CONTENT
8 channels provided
of various genres from Live Financial and Regional News, Music,
Promotional channels and FTA channels familiar to Malaysian viewers.
TARIFFS
/ PRICING LEVELS
Subscription based services
for the Premium channels are free and provided only to U Mobile
Subscribers.
TECHNICAL
INFORMATION
TRANSMITTERS
Planned and deployed more than 10 units of 2.5kW (RMS) Transmitters
covering an estimated area of 50km x 50 km, designed for high
service availability. We would believe this to be one of the most
extensively planned, designed and proven SFN network especially
for a DVB-H network, to date.
BROADCAST
BAND AND FREQUENCY
SFN on Channel 49 @ Centre
frequency 698MHz and 8MHz Bandwidth
DVB-H
PARAMETERS
Network is designed with future expansion in plan:
Present parameters set since September 2007 are:
CR - 1/2
MPE-FEC - 7/8
Mode - 2k
TS - 10%
Guard Interval - 1/8
These will be changed soon to cater for higher capacities, supported
by the progressive network deployment.
