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The European Commission has chosen the Nokia-backed DVB-H standard for mobile TV. Big loser: Qualcomm and its competing platform, MediaFLO. Qualcomm has been lobbying the Commission heavily in the past few months. What does this mean? By creating one standard for the entire EU, the Commission hopes to give a boost to European mobile TV services. Like they did with the GSM standard, the EU’s adoption of DVB-H will encourage operators and device manufacturers to launch these services within the next year.