ROK Entertainment Group Inc. Launches Mobile TV Service with Vodafone-Turkey
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Mobile Entertainment Specialist Launches a Mobile Television
Service with Vodafone in Turkey
WOLVERHAMPTON, England--(Business Wire)--ROK Entertainment Group Inc. (OTCBB:ROKE) (ROK or 'the Company'),
the UK-based mobile technologies, applications and entertainment
development company, today announces the launch in Turkey, through its
regional representative Mobilturk, of a service with Vodafone for the
provision of visual content direct to a user's mobile telephone.
Vodafone-Turkey's subscribers will be able to watch a range of
live and on-demand content via the Company's mobile streaming service,
ROK TV, which includes technology that maximizes deployment across
2.5G networks to provide a high frame-rate mobile TV service. The
weekly fee of approximately US$4.00 is payable via SMS, with the first
week's viewing free of charge. Mobilturk are forecasting several
thousand paid-for subscribers per month.
The service is offered to Vodafone's customers in Turkey through
ROK's regional representative Mobilturk, Turkey's largest mobile
network operator, with whom the Company entered an agreement in
October 2007 for the introduction of the country's first commercial
mobile TV service.
Laurence Alexander, CEO of ROK commented, "We are delighted to
have joined Vodafone in offering mobile entertainment services to
users in Turkey, which forms part of our strategy to make our content
available to consumers globally. This launch, in partnership with one
of the world's leading mobile network operators, demonstrates the
premium offered by ROK's technologies and services, and marks a
significant stage in our growth and development."
About ROK
ROK Entertainment Group Inc., formed in 2003, is a world-leading
mobile technology and applications developer.
With 170 staff worldwide, ROK has filed more than 40 international
patents for its suite of innovative mobile technologies.
With 3 billion mobile handsets in use worldwide, the mobile TV
industry is forecast to become a multi-billion dollar business within
a few years.
ROK TV enables the streaming of live and on-demand TV to mobile
phones over mass-market 2.5G, as well as over 3G and Wi-Fi.
Forward-Looking Statement
The information contained in this new release, other than
historical information, consists of forward-looking statements that
involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to
differ materially from those described in these statements.
Forward-looking statements regarding the timing of developing, testing
and releasing existing and new products, of marketing and selling
them, of deriving revenues and profits from them, as well as the
effects of those revenues and profits on the company's margins and
financial position, are uncertain because many of the factors
affecting the timing of those items are beyond the company's control.
Corfin Communications for ROK Entertainment Group Inc.
Harry Chathli, Claire Norbury
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Copyright Business Wire 2008
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