LONDON, April 21, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ROK Entertainment Group, the mobile applications, technologies and services group, today announced its globally-available, advertising-funded mobile TV service, FreeBe TV, is now iPhone compatible, in addition to Nokia, Samsung and Motorola devices.
Sign-up for FreeBe TV is available at www.freebe.tv. The service is viewable online and is streamed over 2.5G GPRS, 3G or Wi-Fi to mobile phones.
FreeBe TV is free to watch on mobile phones providing the viewer has a data package in their mobile tariff or are accessing the service over Wi-Fi.
"The vast majority of iPhone users worldwide have a data package included in their operator tariff," said Jonathan Kendrick, Chairman and CEO of ROK, "which is why we are very pleased to be able to offer FreeBe TV to this fast-growing user group."
ROK Entertainment Group (www.rokent.com) is best known for its award-winning ROK TV service which it licenses to Mobile Operators around the world.
Mobile video services are expected to grow rapidly in the years to come with the increasing availability of more viewer-friendly handsets, such as the iPhone. According to Portio Research, mobile video services are expected to quickly gain popularity with Portio forecasting worldwide revenues from mobile video will nearly triple to reach USD 18.2 billion by the end of 2013.
"This development of FreeBe TV compatibility with iPhone is a significant step forward in our overall plan to deliver a number of key mobile/web converged services and we shall be updating the content streams regularly, going-forward," Added Kendrick.
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