Claro Launches ROK-Powered 3G Mobile TV Service in Dominican Republic
October 1st, 2009 Leave a comment Visited 163 times, 1 so far today
Ideas TV offers live and pre-recorded Mobile TV channels streamed over 3G .
London and Dominican Republic: Thursday, 1st October 2009: ROK Entertainment Group, the mobile technology, applications and services company and Claro, Dominican Republic, the largest Mobile Operator in Dominican Republic, have today announced the launch of Ideas TV, a streamed, live and pre-recorded mobile TV subscription service..
Powered by ROK’s award-winning over-the-air video-streaming technologies, Ideas TV will offer an initial package of 11 (eleven) local and international channels including Cadena de Noticias, ESPN, ESPN X, TV Azteca, Discovery Movil, MTV, Disney Channel, History Channel and National Geographic, Nickelodeon, Discover Kids and Playboy Lifestyle.
Initially the service will be available on the Blackberry Bold, Nokia N95, Nokia E71 and the Nokia 6120.
The deployment of Ideas TV in Dominican Republic follows the successful launch of ROK-powered Ideas TV with Claro’s parent group Operator, Telcel, in Mexico in September 2008.
Commenting on the launch of Ideas TV, Jonathan Kendrick, Chairman and CEO of ROK said “We are delighted to be working with Claro in Dominican Republic as this represents another major milestone in our global roll-out of our revenue-generating mobile entertainment services.”
“Claro operates the only 3G network in the Dominican Republic so we are really excited to be able to provide our customers with this breakthrough in mobile entertainment” added a spokesperson from Claro “and we are proud to be one of the first countries in the whole of Latin America to offer mobile TV.”
About Codetel:
Claro in the Dominican Republic is the mobile brand within the Compañía Dominicana de Teléfonos, the biggest telecommunications company in the Dominican Republic and a part of America Movil telecom group which is the fifth largest mobile phone network operator in the world, with more than 170 million customers. It serves clients in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico and Uruguay y Colombia.
About ROK:
Founded in 2004, ROK Entertainment Group is a mobile technologies, applications and services development company with a suite of revenue-generating mobile services which it licenses to Mobile Operators and Handset Manufacturers worldwide. Headquartered in the UK, ROK is best known for its award-winning mobile TV services which streams video – live and on demand – over 2.5G, 3G and Wi-Fi®. In addition, ROK has 5 patent awards and many more patent applications in place. For more information, please visit: www.rokent.com.
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