Abstract: A method, mobile terminal, embodied computer program, and device wirelessly receive at a mobile device a bursty communication that has receiving periods and non-receiving periods. Memory card operations within the mobile device are synchronized to the non-receiving periods. This is to prevent interference between read/write operations from/to the removable memory card and reception of the communication, where the reception is active during the receiving periods but not during the non-receiving periods. The bursty communication may be a DVB-H signal that employs time slicing, where the DVB-H receiver operates with at least some of its components in a depowered state for conservation of battery energy.