Thailand's IEC has signed an agreement with Chinese and US partners to deploy a mobile video broadcasting network throughout Thailand.
IEC has teamed up with the China Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and vendors Telairity and Digital Horizon to develop a network based on the China Multimedia Mobile Broadcasting (CMMB) standard.
The rollout is scheduled to commence in March, the companies said in a statement.
Thai engineering firm IEC was granted approval to implement Thailand's first mobile digital broadcasting system in 2010, in partnership with Thai state broadcaster MCOT.
Telairity, a video encoding solution provider, will act as systems integrator for the project as well as providing its products. Digital broadcasting deployment company Digital Horizon will implement the nationwide broadcast system.
CSMBC operates a network based on the CMMB standard in China, and is approved by CMMB's developers, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television.
The standard was first announced in 2006 as an alternative to Europe's DVB-H standard. The first chips to support it hit the market in 2007.
CBC in early 2010 said the company was aiming to have 10 million CMMB users by the end of the year.