Dr Who Coming to Your Mobile
2 April 2007 by axxxr
The trial, which will last up to 12 months, will allow subscribers to Orange, Vodafone and 3's TV packages to watch BBC One, BBC News 24 and BBC Three (with the exception of some sport and acquired programmes) streamed on their mobiles.They will also be able to listen to up to eight BBC radio stations including Radio 1, 1Xtra, Radio 2, Radio 3, Radio 4, 6 Music, BBC 7 and Asian Network. The trial will start within the month. Separately, the BBC has also launched an enhanced version of www.bbc.co.uk/mobile which is available to all mobile phones with browsers capable of displaying XHTML pages.Users will benefit from improved navigation and design, with scope in the future for additional functionality.The enhanced service also includes a redesigned BBC Weather which features Radio 4's The Shipping Forecast. www.bbc.co.uk 
Comments On 4 Apr 18:44 zin wrote Best of the best On 2 Apr 22:36 peanut wrote It is shocking how the BBC are allowed to make these deals under the disguise as trials. A trial is a closed system of discreet users not your average everyday customer. If it a trial to test the 3g system for transport of its content ALL network providers should have been engaged. I can only get 3g on T-Mobile and yet I also pay my licence fee. Why am I not offered the opportunity to pay a little more to view this content which could easily have been transported via their mobile site and not provider specific portals. I will definitely be completing the public forum document next time it is distributed. I believe in the BBC but while they make these fragmented business decisions that the entire nation are not able to take part in - they are heading towards reducing consumer confidence and will lose the licence fee. On 2 Apr 22:11 awave wrote this isn't gonna be free by the way ;) it's just giving orange/vodafone/3 the chance to get people to pay out a bomb for bbc 1+3 alongside news24! probs gonna make a bomb for the networks, but some money will be made for the bbc out of this...hopefully. On 2 Apr 21:06 independent wrote the bbc should not sign exclusive deals to ANY provider. they are publicly accountable, and ALL content should be free to everyone. I say free but we do pay our licence for the privalige. Anyway Dr who is crap! so i'm not really all that bothered. |
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