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Wipro buys Nokia’s mobile TV unit.

22 Apr 2009 Evaluate

Wipro Technologies, the global IT arm of Wipro Ltd, has acquired the Mobile Broadcast Solutions unit of cellular handset maker Nokia for an undisclosed sum. The 40-employee enterprise mobile TV unit develops software and hardware that enables mobile TV technology on the phone to find and access the broadcasting network.

 

The Nokia Mobile Broadcast Solution is basically a DVB-H (digital video broadcast – handheld) server platform for offering commercial mobile TV services. Nokia had clients such as KPN, a mobile TV service provider in Europe, and MiTV Corporation Sdn Bhd in Malaysia for its broadcast solution.

 

The buyout of mobile TV unit is the second such acquisition of Nokia’s assets by Wipro in recent years. Nokia is one of the key customers of Wipro. Two years ago Wipro had acquired the Berlin-based, 58-engineer R&D unit of Nokia Siemens Networks that focussed on radio access technologies.

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