Heavy-Duty Data transfer via your Mobile. The company's research found people like to watch mobile TV in cars and public places, such as cafes. Watching mobile TV at home and in workplaces was also common.(Image: Matti Bjorkman / AP)
HELSINKI, Finland - Nokia Corp. on Tuesday launched a pilot project enabling cell phone users to watch television broadcasts on their handsets in the Helsinki region.
In the first venture of its kind in Finland, Nokia is working with the country's largest broadcaster, the Finnish Broadcasting Company, YLE, and leading commercial TV channels and major mobile service providers, including TeliaSonera and Elisa, the world's largest cell phone maker said. YLE TV is watched daily by some two-thirds of the Finnish population of 5.2 million.
Besides Finnish TV programming, 500 test users in the capital region can also watch international television broadcasts, such
- as BBC World and
- CNN, and
- tune into radio programs.
Nokia tested the system last year before launching Tuesday's pilot project, scheduled to continue until June 2005, the Finnish company said.
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