Major UK mobile TV trial starts

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Watch TV on your Cell phone! Well O2 and Arqiva are doing a trial in the UK for just that. 3G mobile technology will allow you to watch you favourite soap opera while on the move. Unfortunatly the trial is only available to a select few in Oxford, But the future looks promising. According to the BBC mobile companies are expected to have 51 million users of mobile TV by 2009.

A full-scale UK trial of the technology that will let people watch TV directly on their mobiles has been launched. The Arqiva and O2 trial with 400 people in Oxford will test the technology that lets mobiles receive direct TV signals, and people’s desire to watch mobile TV.

Sixteen channels will be available to the triallists, including BBC One and Two, ITV 1 and 2, and Channel 4.

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