Direct-to-mobile tech: DoT arm flags adoption hurdles

The Telecommunication Engineering Centre (TEC) has flagged challenges that could crop up in the implementation of the direct-to-mobile (D2M) technology, which would pave the way for streaming television content directly to mobile phones, without an internet connection.

This comes amid strong opposition to the government’s proposal for the D2M by technology companies like Qualcomm, Samsung, Ericsson, Nokia as well as telecom operators.

TEC has said that the integration of smartphones that support D2M and digital terrestrial TV to mobile devices (DTT2M) technologies remains a big challenge.