Cingular Offering TV on Mobile Phones

MobiTV says that it has launched its live television service on the USA based network operator, Cingular Wireless. For MobiTV, this launch marks a significant milestone as the company moves into its second year of operations distributing its service on two of the nation's largest carriers. Within the past 60 days, the company has effectively doubled its potential market in the U.S. through an October launch on AT&T Wireless' mMode service, prior to AT&T's acquisition by Cingular, and this launch on Cingular's MEdia Net service.

MobiTV will be available to Cingular Wireless subscribers using the Nokia 6620, Motorola V3 (RAZR), Motorola V220, Motorola V180, and soon on the Motorola V400 and V600 handsets.

With MobiTV, Cingular subscribers can watch live news, sports and entertainment programming on 22 channels, including MSNBC, CNBC, ABC News Now, NBC Mobile, FOX Sports, Discovery, TLC, C-SPAN, and other music, sports, fashion, and comedy channels.

"With MobiTV, we can offer our subscribers live TV that will satisfy news junkies, sports fans, music lovers or anyone wanting to be entertained while on the go," said Jim Ryan, vice president of data product management for Cingular Wireless. "Corresponding to our increasingly mobile lifestyles, it is no surprise that MobiTV is a very popular service in the market today, and we are happy to be able to provide the service and an array of video capable handsets to our customers."

Posted to the site on 26th January 2005