· The official mobile television network provider for the seventh year running, abertis telecom will deploy the network infrastructure used to carry out demonstrations of DMB Mobile TV and DAB and DAB+ digital radio.
· The new features to be launched by the company include multi-screen cloud solutions, Connected TV and mobile applications aimed at Smart Cities.
· abertis telecom will coordinate more than 50 frequencies of the mobile operators carrying out demonstrations and will be responsible for broadcasting the official event channel, MWC Live, throughout Catalonia.

abertis telecom, the abertis group's telecommunications infrastructure operator, will participate for the seventh year running in the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2012, which will take place in Barcelona from 27 February to 1 March. At this year's event, which will be held under the slogan "Redefining Mobile", the company will deploy the digital network used to carry out the demonstrations of DMB Mobile TV and DAB digital radio and its technological successor, DAB+. These demonstrations, with the collaboration of the BBC's radio broadcasting unit, which will contribute its live broadcast content, will confirm the feasibility of DAB and DMB standards for the transmission of digital radio and mobile TV, as well as its reception on mobile devices (smartphones and tablets).

During the event, abertis telecom will also launch its developments aimed at communications for security and emergency forces through mobile devices and will carry out demonstrations of the platforms it has developed in the Smart Cities field,such as the first Smart Zone in Spain and the Barcelona Ciutat Intel•ligent project.

As far as Connected Television is concerned, abertis telecom will use the event as an opportunity to demonstrate its OTT (over the top) solution for multi-screen television on the cloud, which provides all the services necessary for "end-to-end" management of online content for operators, radio broadcasters and content providers.

The platform has a set of converging broadcast-broadband solutions developed according to the HbbTV hybrid television standard aimed at the audiovisual sector in the DTTcom environment. It is a cloud-based solution which allows the service to be offered without the need to develop an in-house infrastructure, offering various alternatives to monetise content distribution on the Internet.

abertis telecom will carry out these demonstrations using a wide range of devices: smartphones, tablets, PCs, set-top boxes and connected televisions, confirming the feasibility of its solution in different operating systems: Android, iOS and Windows.

abertis telecom has been the Official Mobile Television Network Provider for the MWC since 2006. Every year, the abertis group's telecommunications infrastructure operator has deployed and run networks using different technologies, thereby guaranteeing the development of the technical demonstrations which take place during the event.