DGAP-News: ROK Global PLC : ROK Partners with BPS in Deployment of Mobile Applications to Telenor Pakistan
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ROK Global PLC : ROK Partners with BPS in Deployment of Mobile
Applications to Telenor Pakistan
08.08.2011 / 10:00
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Corporate Press Release
Monday, 8th August 2011
PRESS RELEASE
ROK Partners with BPS in Deployment of Mobile Applications to Telenor
Pakistan
Global roll-out of ROK mobile applications continues?Ticker Symbol: RKG
WKN: A0YKFS
London, 8th August 2011??ROK Global PLC, the mobile and web technology,
applications and services company, has announced an agreement with Brand
Promotion Services (Pvt) Ltd (BPS), for the deployment of ROK's portfolio
of revenue-generating mobile applications to Mobile Operator Telenor in
Pakistan.
The first ROK-powered, Telenor-branded products to be launched with Telenor
in September will include:
ShrinkIt: a digital photo compression product designed to reduce the size
of images with no loss quality, saving storage space users mobile devices
and enabling the sending of photos and images faster and cheaper due to the
reduced image and file size.??Text Talk: an SMS application that reads text messages aloud,
automatically, with the added benefit of multi-language translation,
allowing users to read and hear texts sent to them in other languages.??ROK TV: mass-market Mobile TV service which enables high quality streaming
of live and on-demand video.
All ROK products supplied to Telenor will be marketed by Telenor to their
customers directly and via Mobile Application stores such as Nokia Ovi,
BlackBerry App World, iTunes and Android stores.
'We are very excited to be working with BPS in the deployment of our suite
of mobile applications in Pakistan and we look forward to further
development of our joint relationship with Telenor.' Said Jonathan
Kendrick, Chairman of ROK Global.
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 $900m 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 cutting-edge mobile
security technologies which it licenses to law enforcement agencies as well
as multi-language text-to-speech technologies.
Telenor Pakistan is 100% owned by the Telenor Group, an international
provider of high quality voice, data, content and communication services in
14 markets across Europe and Asia. Telenor Group is among the largest
mobile operators in the world with over 195 million mobile subscriptions
(Q3 2010) and a workforce of approximately 34,000.
At the end of October 2010 Telenor Pakistan had a subscriber base of 24.12
million and a market share of 24% making it the Pakistan's second largest
mobile operator.
For more information:
www.rokglobal.com
irgermany(at)rokglobal.com
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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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