Motorola and Nokia DVB-Hugging

The world's two largest mobile manufacturers have agreed to collaborate on mobile TV.

Motorola and Nokia announced today they will be working together to promote DVB-H, one standard used for broadcast mobile TV, with a view to interoperability between all their relevant kit and services.

The pair have also thrown their collective weight behind DVB-IPDC standardisation efforts.

DVB-H is just one of many competing standards of mobile TV being trialled around the world, including DAB-IP, used by BT and Virgin Mobile, and MediaFLO, the Qualcomm-owned standard being piloted by Sky.

DVB-H is thought by many industry watchers to be the eventual winner in the standards war - a prediction which will likely be given more weight in light of today's announcement. According to research company Informa more than 50 million DVB-H devices will be sold in 2010.

Analyst house Gartner believes one in 10 of us will be watching TV via a mobile in 2009.