Mumbai, April 28 -- Ahead of the World Audio Visual and Entertainment Summit (WAVES) 2025 in Mumbai, Free Stream Technologies (incubated at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur), Lava International and HMD have announced launch plans under way to meet mass consumer demand for Direct-to-Mobile (D2M) phones ahead of large-scale field trials in India.

In line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's clarion call for Viksit Bharat, Direct-to-Mobile is a broadcasting technology that uses terrestrial TV broadcast airwaves to deliver live TV, Video, Audio and text messages (multimedia content) of public and national importance (such as entertainment, sports, educational programming and emergency alerts) directly to phones without the need for Wi-F...