MTNL Makes Public Announcement of TV on Phone

Though this service has been available for quite some time, but today was the first public announcement of TV on Mobile Phones. This is the first service provider to launch Live Television (Actually about 4 to 5 minutes delayed, as we are still on GPRS and not 3G) on your Mobile Phone. Powered by Apalya, a service provider based out of Hyderabad, this has put MTNL on a lead advantage with other major cell phone providers.

The service is right now available on Nokia and Sony Ericsson Handsets, details atMTNL compatible Handsets, but the price announcement is very interesting, at Rs. 99 per month for a Set of 15 channels (Aaj Tak, BBC World, Bindaas, Cartoon Network, CNBC Awaaz, CNBC TV18, CNN IBN, CNN Mobile, IBN7, INDIA TV, NDTV 24x7, NDTV India, NDTV Profit, Times Now & Zoom). Channels Such as Fashion TV, and some Spritiual Channels (Iskcon Temple, Haji-Ali Dargh, Mumbai, Siddhi Vinayaka Darshan, Shiridi Sai Baba Darshan) are also available, but no details about Tariff of these is available.

From the looks of it, even the Babu's at MTNL don't like Doordarshan, I thought that needs to be compulsarily built into any kind of Cable / CAS / TV / IPTV / DTH Etc etc..

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