FreeBe TV, the US market’s first free mainstream mobile TV service, currently offers 13 channels of content, including live news, music and sports. The service is carrier agnostic and can be accessed from 21 mobile phones with WAP-enabled capabilities.
ROK said that users of FreeBe TV don’t have to be on a high-speed, 3G network as the service was developed to deliver high quality video content over 2.5G GPRS.
In addition to the mobile version of FreeBe TV, ROK announced that the same service will soon also be available for the PC, via the internet. FreeBe IPTV will deliver the same streaming channels as the mobile TV service but over a broadband connection, the company said.
Hoping to tap into the increasing demand for user-generated content, as demonstrated by the popularity of YouTube, ROK has also created a user-generated content channel. Viewers of ROK’s TV services can send their own content in to the channel, and a selection of the submissions will be included on the channel, which will stream on the new mobile TV service.
