India’s telecoms regulator has recommended auctioning licences for broadcasting mobile television services, and said a provider must transmit signals using either terrestrial systems or satellite.

Mobile TV services allow subscribers to watch on hand-held devices either through telecoms networks or by broadcast.

Foreign investment in a provider will be allowed up to 74 percent, but no more than 20 percent must be owned by broadcasting companies, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India said in its draft recommendations.

The provider, too, cannot hold more than 20 percent of a broadcasting company, it added.

Posted: 01|3|08 at 12:39 pm. Filed under: Auction News.