DGAP-News: ROK Global PLC : ROK continues deployment of Soccer Alerts Service with three further Mobile Operator launches in Kenya
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ROK Global PLC : ROK continues deployment of Soccer Alerts Service
with three further Mobile Operator launches in Kenya
25.01.2013 / 09:29
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ROK continues deployment of Soccer Alerts Service with three further Mobile
Operator launches in Kenya
The launch of ROK's Soccer Alerts service with Safaricom, Airtel and Yu in
Kenya continues the deployment across Africa, Asia and the Middle East
Friday 25th January 2012
Ticker Symbol: RKG
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ROK Global PLC, the mobile, web and industrial technology, applications and
services company, has announced the deployment of its 'Soccer Alerts' SMS
service with Kenyan Mobile Operators Safaricom, Airtel and Yu.
This follows the deployments of the Soccer Alerts subscription services in
Nigeria with Etisalat, in Ghana with Tigo and MTN, in Zambia with MTN and
in Malaysia with Mobile Operators Digi, Maxis and Celcom, in Brunei with
DSTcom and b-mobile and are in addition to similar services in operation
with Zain and STC in Saudi Arabia.
Designed to provide near-live match score updates and daily news from the
English and major European soccer leagues, cups and tournaments, including
the current African Cup of Nations, direct to subscribers mobile phones via
SMS and Audio reports, ROK's Soccer Alert service is charged at between USD
$0.50c and $1.00 per week or by message delivered, depending on the market,
with ROK receiving a share of revenue earned.
'ROK continues to develop and deploy our suite of applications for mobile
phones using SMS and WAP technologies which we license to Mobile Operators
around the world and are pleased with the success of our SMS and Audio
Soccer Alert service which is proving very popular' said Paolo Fidanza, CEO
of ROK Global. 'We will continue to deploy these services on a global
scale, territory by territory and Operator by Operator.'
ROK Global PLC was co-founded by US Billionaire John Paul DeJoria and
UK-based entrepreneur, Jonathan Kendrick and is listed on the GXG Exchange
in Copenhagen.
In addition to being the co-founder of ROK, John Paul DeJoria is Chairman
and CEO of John Paul Mitchell Systems, the 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, web
and industrial technologies space including high quality mass-market Mobile
TV (which can be streamed, live and on-demand, over mass-market 2.5G as
well as 3G and Wi-Fi), as well as mobile security technologies and
multi-language text-to-speech technologies.
More information on ROK Global PLC can be found at www.rokglobal.com
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