DGAP-News: ROK-powered Mobile TV Service for Telcel Launches on BlackBerry App World(TM)
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ROK-powered Mobile TV Service for Telcel Launches on BlackBerry App
World(TM)
26.01.2012 / 11:00
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ROK-powered Mobile TV Service for Telcel Launches on BlackBerry App
World(TM)
10 channel Telcel Mobile TV service 'iTV' now available to BlackBerry(R)
users in Mexico
Thursday 26th January 2012
Ticker Symbol: RKG
WKN: A0YKFS
ROK Global PLC, the mobile and web technology, applications and services
company, has announced its iTV Mobile TV service which it provides to
mobile operator Telcel in Mexico has become the first of the 11 Mobile TV
services ROK provides to America Movil across Latin America to be launched
on BlackBerry App World(TM).
The ROK-powered Mobile TV services provided to other America Movil
operators will be marketed in a similar fashion over the next few weeks.
Offering 10 TV channels covering news, sports, music and entertainment,
Telcel's iTV service is available to BlackBerry(R) users for a monthly
subscription fee in Mexico equivalent to approximately $10.00 with daily
and weekly payment options also available to subscribers.
'ROK TV technology is unique as it enables the streaming of high quality
live and on-demand TV to more than 150 compatible mobile phones over
existing mobile networks' said Jonathan Kendrick, Chairman and CEO of ROK
Global. 'We are delighted with the success of the ROK-powered Mobile TV
services we have provided to 11 America Movil Operators to date and are
delighted to have launched the first of these services on BlackBerry App
World.'
Listed on the Open Market of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, ROK Global PLC
was co-founded by US Billionaire John Paul DeJoria and UK-based serial
technology-specialist entrepreneur, Jonathan Kendrick.
In addition to being the co-founder of ROK, John Paul DeJoria is Chairman
and CEO of John Paul Mitchell Systems, the producer and manufacturer of
Paul Mitchell hair care products and is also co-founder of Patron Tequila,
the world's leading premium tequila brand.
ROK has pioneered many new technologies in the rapidly-evolving mobile and
web space in addition to high quality mass-market Mobile TV (which can be
streamed, live and on-demand, over 2.5G GPRS as well as 3G and Wi-Fi), to
include mobile security technologies which it licenses to law enforcement
agencies and multi-language text-to-speech technologies as well as the
highly innovative 'JP Selects' e-commerce portal for eco-friendly and
sustainable brands and products.
Mexico-based America Movil have 16 operating companies across Central and
Southern America with a combined total of 250 million subscribers.
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