EE TV to extend out to LTE network this year 2015 !

(By CAROLINE GABRIEL Published: 19 March, 2015)

EE TV to extend out to LTE network this year

Multiscreen service currently restricted to home WiFi, but UK's largest MNO is moving towards quad play ahead of BT merger

"The mobile player has announced that it plans to extend its current EE TV multiscreen service, which runs on WiFi, to its cellular network.

EE TV is designed to increase the operator's share of household media and communications spend, by being offered as a free add-on to fixed broadband services. Launched last October, it is based around a set-top box which can be controlled by a smartphone app and can support content streaming to up to four devices. 

===> The multiscreen experience is currently limited to gadgets connected to the same WiFi network as the set-top box, but that will become significantly more flexible once the capability expands out over EE's mobile network. <==

That would mark a fully converged EE TV service, which would presumably eat up the current mobile TV offering, which is a standalone application available as an add-on to cellular tariffs.

Matt Stagg, senior manager of network strategy, revealed the plan to TotalTelecom and company confirmed the target was to extend the service to cellular later this year."

"...EE, have argued that, as LTE's capacity and efficiency increases, there will be less need for WiFi - especially if LTE creeps into unlicensed spectrum, improving its capacity and cost effectiveness by harnessing 5GHz for supplemental downlink, as envisaged with the LTE-LAA technology...."

"...the potential of LAA, carriers are also looking to improve the efficiency of their 4G networks as video systems with technologies like LTE Broadcast.  ===> EE has trialled this to support video services in live sporting events........

"...===> The government also set a target of providing every home with at least 100Mbps broadband, should the dominant Conservative party be re-elected in May..."

Source: http://www.rethink-wireless.com/2015/03/19/ee-tv-extend-lte-network-year-page2


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(19 March 2015)

"The hardware will be supposedly be provided by Netgem, a Paris-based company which already partners with Orange SA, the French multinational which owns half of EE."

...dans l'article netgem serait déjà partenaire avec orange SA ?

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/digital-home/3575855/ee-tv-box-price-specs-featu res-uk/

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1. See next generation LTE  solutions from NETGEM:
http://netgem.com/mobility-solutions.php

2. Netgem provides not only the set-tops, but also the software platform for the TV service of UK operator EE TV!!!