Telenor Pakistan Launches ROK TV on mobile phones

ISLAMABAD and London — Telenor Pakistan, the second largest and fastest growing cellular company of Pakistan, has taken yet another step towards providing value-added services to its customers by introducing the first of its kind service in Pakistan: Telenor Mobile TV. This service enables customers to watch live TV including local and international channels on their handsets. With Telenor Mobile TV, Telenor customers are now the only privileged ones who are able to avail such a unique service.

Chief Technical Officer Telenor Pakistan Peter Anthony Dindial, excited about the milestone achievement, said: “No longer is mobile TV confined to only 3G operators. With this industry-first service, delivered on Pakistan’s Largest GPRS/EDGE platform, Telenor customers can view multiple channels right on their handsets, making the Telenor customer truly special.” He added: “We are intent at making it easy for our customers to use advanced services and utilize the real potential of Telenor’s available technology and the quality of its network.”

Director Marketing Telenor Pakistan Azim-ul-Haq, giving details of Telenor Mobile TV, said: “After launching extremely popular products like Telenor Easyload and Telenor Smart Share Service, we are proud to bring TV to the handset screens of our customers. Telenor Mobile TV comes with a great mix of news, entertainment, music and sports channels – offered to all our prepaid and postpaid customers.” He added: “Products like Mobile TV can only be supported and delivered once there is an extensive GPRS/ EDGE network in place. Telenor, through its largest GPRS/ EDGE enabled network in Pakistan, will make this product accessible to our customers in all parts of the country.”

“We are delighted to be partnering with Telenor on delivering the first mobile TV service in Pakistan” said Jonathan Kendrick, Chairman and CEO of ROK Entertainment Group. “This is an exciting and wholly new development in mobile entertainment in Pakistan and heralds the start of an on-going process of ROK delivering even more innovative technologies and services to Telenor.”

“Telenor’s Mobile TV service contains some of the best channels and content available, and we plan to introduce even more exciting content in the future.”

Telenor Mobile TV will offer a range of channels starting with Al-Jazeera, ABC News, TV 1, Indus Plus, Indus Vision, Cartoon Classic, MTV-Pakistan, Channel G, Filmazia, Waseeb, AWT Khyber & KTN. More channels will be added soon.