T-Mobile launches a Mobile TV platform with Allegro DVT's transcoding solution

February 05, 2015 - T-Mobile Czech Republic, the number one operator on the Czech mobile market is launching its Mobile TV platform. It has selected Allegro DVT’s transcoders to build its OTT platform, thus providing its 6 million subscribers the possibility to have access to Mobile TV.

Allegro DVT’s solution is based on AL2400: a hardware-accelerated dense all-in-one OTT delivery system. It handles the transcoding and packaging in all OTT TV formats, and integrates with the Encryption, Subtitling and Ad Insertion ecosystem. The deployed system benefits from Allegro DVT’s advanced management system and network redundancy features.

T-Mobile’s subscribers can now watch 49 live services on their mobile devices via dedicated iOS and Android applications. That brings undeniable added value to T-Mobile’s offering.

"We’re using Allegro DVT’s AL2400 transcoders for our live multiscreen IPTV channels. Allegro DVT was selected thanks to their distinguished performance and cost-effective solution." says Mr. Milan Hába, Vice President Technology & Business Innovations from T-Mobile. "We’re proud to have been selected by T-Mobile." adds Jerome Blanc, Allegro DVT’s products manager, "AL2400 is part of our wide range of OTT dedicated products. It also includes scalable software-based solutions that are among the first HEVC encoders."

AL2400 has been deployed worldwide, offering similar services to operators in various formats and configurations.

About T-Mobile CZ
T-Mobile Czech Republic has been operating on the Czech market since 1996, it forms a part of the Deutsche Telekom international telecommunication group since 2002. As of September 30th, 2014 the company attended more than 6 million mobile customers and remains the Czech market leader. Besides mobile and fixed telecommunication services, T-Mobile is an integrated operator offering a wide portfolio of IT services and systems integration for corporate customers and public administration.
T-Mobile strives, in the long term horizon, to augment the overall quality of its services. It has been repeatedly confirmed by the independent tests, that T-Mobile remains the quality leader in the field of 2G, 3G (UMTS FDD) and LTE data as well as in the voice services in the GSM network area. The company has been awarded many specialized appreciations for innovative ICT solutions – e.g. in the IT Project of the Year enquiry.
Since its establishment the company has been laying great impact on the responsible attitude towards the business and society. T-Mobile holds, besides others, the Employer of the Year and the Decade award, Equal Opportunities or Via Bona awards for its employees’ incorporation into donor and volunteering activities. T-Mobile was acclaimed the Best mobile operation in the Eastern Europe by the World Finance Magazine in 2012.
http://www.t-mobile.cz/

About Allegro DVT
Allegro DVT is a leading provider of H.264/MPEG-4 AVC|SVC|MVC and HEVC/H.265 solutions, including industry standard compliance test suites, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC and HEVC/H.265 encoder, codec and decoder hardware (RTL) IPs; and multiscreen encoders and transcoders. Allegro DVT products have been chosen by more than 100 major IC providers, OEMs and broadcasters. For more information, visit Allegro DVT's Website or contact info@allegrodvt.com.
http://www.allegrodvt.com/broadcast