BBC World Service Available on Nokia Phones

For the first time, the BBCÃ's English and Arabic international news channels are now part of NokiaÃ's Internet Radio application on mobile phones, following an agreement between BBC World Service and Nokia.

From today, three audio channels - BBC World Service in English, BBC World ServiceÃ's 24-hour rolling news in English, and BBC Arabic - will be available on the latest Nokia mobile phone models as part of their preloaded Internet Radio application.

Karl Kathuria, Head of Digital Delivery, BBC World Service, added: "For delivery over the Internet Radio platform, we are providing an MP3-format stream that can be picked up via Wi-Fi or through a mobile data connection, mirroring our online offer in these languages. This is the first time weÃ've made our live 24-hour audio streams available specifically for a mobile platform, as part of our commitment to a multi-format strategy."

The Nokia Internet Radio application can be downloaded to various Nokia device models for free from http://nokia.com/internetradio and is also preloaded in selected Nokia S60 3rd edition devices.

Posted to the site on 9th December 2008