DGAP-News: ROK Global PLC : ROK Launch Mobile Subscription Services in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh
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ROK Global PLC : ROK Launch Mobile Subscription Services in Saudi
Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh
12.07.2011 / 10:00
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Corporate Press Release
Tuesday, 12th July 2011
PRESS RELEASE
ROK Launch Mobile Subscription Services in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain,
Sri Lanka and Bangladesh
Global Roll-out of ROK Mobile Subscription Applications Continues
Ticker Symbol: RKG
WKN: A0YKFS
London, Tuesday 12th July 2011
ROK Global PLC, the UK-based mobile and web technology, applications and
services company, has announced further deployments of its 'Soccer Alerts'
subscription service with Mobile Operators Zain and STC in Saudi Arabia,
Qtel in Qatar and Zain in Bahrain.
These deployments are in addition to similar subscription services deployed
by ROK in April 2011 to Airtel in Nigeria and Zain in Jordan and Iraq.
Designed to provide near-live updates, news and scores from all the major
soccer leagues to subscribers mobile phones via SMS, ROK's Soccer Alert
service is charged at between USD $0.50c and $1.00 per week depending on
the market.
Furthermore, ROK has also deployed its 'Comics' application subscription
service for mobile phones to Dialog in Sri Lanka and to Airtel in
Bangladesh.
'We've developed several hugely engaging and user-friendly entertainment
applications for mobile phones using SMS and WAP technologies which we
license to Mobile Operators around the world' said Jonathan Kendrick,
Chairman of ROK Global. 'And, of course, we are fully prepared to deploy
these services on a global scale, territory to territory and Operator to
Operator.'
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 which achieve in-salon retail sales of
approximately US $800m annually through more than 100,000 salons worldwide.
John Paul 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 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), to include mobile security technologies and multi-language
text-to-speech technologies.
www.rokglobal.com
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statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause
actual results to differ materially from those expressed in the forward-
looking statements, including, but not limited to, certain delays beyond
the company's control with respect to market acceptance of new
technologies or products, delays in testing and evaluation of products,
and other risks detailed from time to time in the Company's filings.
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