Alcatel-Lucent supports commercial trial of BCAST Smartcard Profile 
ConvergenceAsia staff
21/08/2008

Alcatel-Lucent has announced its support for the world’s first commercial trial of the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA)’s new BCAST Smartcard Profile, a key emerging standard for Mobile TV content protection. This trial is being led by Alcatel-Lucent for MobileOne (M1) and MediaCorp along with key mobile telecommunications providers SingTel and StarHub.

The trial, which began in early August 2008, is based on Alcatel-Lucent’s Mobile Interactive TV solution, which will power the DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcasting-Handheld) platform for the trial. The trial also includes mobile devices from Samsung, Smartcard Profile-compliant SIM cards from Gemalto and the Digital Rights Management (DRM) solution from NDS.

“We are pleased to be able to partner with Singapore’s leading mobile communications industry players in bringing more advanced mobile TV options to Singaporeans,” said Oliver Foo, managing director, Singapore and Brunei, Alcatel-Lucent.

“Asian subscribers are ready for a mobile TV offering that delivers a large variety of choices, a high level of personalisation, maximum interactivity and great quality of service,” he added.

Alcatel-Lucent’s DVB-H platform supports the Open Mobile Alliance BCast Smartcard Profile (OMA BCAST SCP) standard, which is being adopted globally. This is a SIM-based service protection system that enables Mobile TV providers to offer flexible subscription models incorporating services such as pay-per-view, pay-per-time, recorded content and more.

The Alcatel-Lucent Unlimited Mobile TV solution is a complete, turnkey solution that presents end-users with a truly diversified Mobile TV offer based on a mix of mainstream broadcast channels and an unlimited number of specialty unicast channels.

The solution supports most of the DVB-H handsets on the market, including those supporting Digital Right Management Profile (DRMP) or Smartcard Profile (SCP).

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