ROK, the UK-based mobile communications and entertainment company, has announced that its ROK TV service is now compatible with Symbian 3 handsets, including the Nokia N71, N73, N80 and N93. ROK says that its ROK TV patent-pending technology delivers video streaming to mobile phones over mass-market 2.5G GPRS at a faster frame rate than any existing 3G TV service. 
It points out that currently, of the worlds 2.5 billions handsets, only 5% have any form of 3G capabilities, and that fewer still have adopted 3G applications such as Mobile TV. In deploying over the ROK network, content owners have the opportunity to reach the full international mobile community, not just geographically and socio-economic confined niches, says ROK. This means that the ROK service not only competes favourably with all other current international services, but offers such a service to a mass-market. 
To be able to add these new high-end handsets to our compatibility list is a major development in the deployment of Mobile TV services worldwide,” says ROK Chairman Jonathan Kendrick.
ROK TV currently offers 21 channels and is available in the UK, China and the US. In the UK, channels can be viewed individually for 99p per month, or all channels can be viewed for 9.99 per month, plus network data charges.
2007 will see ROK take further strides in the Mobile TV space. The company plans to build and operate 30 white-label Mobile TV services over both 2.5G and 3G for selected mobile networks globally.