PeterKay
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Virgin Mobile is jumping on the mobile TV bandwagon.
It has joined forces with BT and Microsoft to offer five digital TV channels and 350 radio channels to its UK subscribers.
The deal was announced at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, the mobile phone industry event of the year.
TV on mobiles is being touted as the next big thing, with early trials in the UK showing users have an appetite for the service.
A pilot scheme by Virgin and BT found that people used the service for an average of more than an hour per week and that most would pay up to £8 a month for watching TV on their mobile.
A separate trial in Oxford, conducted by O2, found that nearly 80% of people would subscribe to a mobile TV service
Read more here Via BBC News
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Posted: 2006-02-20 12:14
