The European Union and China have formed a two-year project dubbed Modibec, with the aim being “the creation of transnational networks of key stakeholders that can help define the priorities, research needs and future cooperation areas for mobile broadcasting”. The project will seek to define a common approach to standardisation and promote European standards in China in regards to digital broadcasting—but focusing on the convergence of digital broadcasting with mobile technologies. WorldDMB (which used to be the World DAB Forum) is a partner of the project, and claims that “other digital TV standards, such as DVB-H and Qualcomm’s MediaFLO, have not been selected by China’s regulators and broadcasters for use within China” reports Electronics Weekly (no mention is made of the Chinese standard CMMB). Why the EU would be pushing for DVB-H in Europe and funding a project (apparently) focused on DAB/DMB in China is a mystery to me, unless it’s just a bureaucratic thing. The reports from the site currently focuses on things like digital TV in buses so the “mobile TV” may not have anything to do with mobile phones, but the site does talk about DVB-H, MediaFLO, MMS and other mobile telecommunications terms.