The prospects for mobile television in Germany were looking bleak this week after regulators decided that the country's DVB-H project would have to be started again from scratch. At the same time, the initial performance of the alternative system of DVB-T mobile television has been disappointing and the standard has not established itself as a viable alternative to DVB-H. German mobile-telephone operators started selling handsets with DVB-T receivers earlier this year, after they lost out to start-up company Mobile 3.0 to operate Germany's DVB-H platform. Despite a considerable marketing effort to sell DVB-T during the European football championships in June, handset sales are understood to have fallen well short of expectations.
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