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22nd Jan
2008
Mobile entertainment specialist launches a mobile television service with Vodafone in Turkey
Wolverhampton, England (22 January 2008): ROK Entertainment Group Inc. (OTCBB: ROKE), 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.
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