ROK-Powered Mobile TV Subscription Service Launched by Claro in Paraguay

Claro officials said the company is very excited to join its parent group, America Movil’s Telcel (News - Alert) service in Mexico, in offering its customers the best-quality streamed mobile TV service available. This service will be promoted as a monthly subscription service at a price of 40,700 PYG per month which is approximately $8.50 per month.

ROK Entertainment Group, a mobile technology, applications and services provider, has come together with Claro (News – Alert) Mobile Operator, from Paraguay, and announced the release of Web PPV – a streamed, live and on-demand multi-channel mobile TV subscription service.

Web PPV will be powered by ROK’s famous ‘ROK TV’ video-streaming technology and it will be offering ESPN (News – Alert), Discovery Kids, MTV, Nat Geo, Discovery, History, ESPN-X, A&E and Nickelodeon channels.

Claro officials said the company is very excited to join its parent group, America Movil’s Telcel (News – Alert) service in Mexico, in offering its customers the best-quality streamed mobile TV service available. This service will be promoted as a monthly subscription service at a price of 40,700 PYG per month which is approximately $8.50 per month.

“We are delighted to be working with Claro in Paraguay as this represents another major milestone in our global roll-out of our revenue generating mobile entertainment services,” said Jonathan Kendrick, chairman of ROK, in a release.

ROK Entertainment Group is the number one mobile entertainment company in the world which specializes in the development and deployment of innovative mobile technologies, services and applications. The company has its offices across the United Kingdom, the United States and, with joint venture partnerships in South Africa, Brazil, Pakistan and India. ROK was established in year 2004 and the aim of ROK Entertainment Group is to become the ultimate ‘one stop shop’ for the best revenue-generating mobile technologies available, right from mass-market streamed mobile TV, through mobile VoIP, data compression technologies, SMS applications and mobile social network solutions.

Claro is the largest mobile phone network in the United States. It is a part of the Mexican telecom group America Movil which is one of the four largest mobile phone network operators in the world, serving more than 200 million customers.

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Claro TV launched DTH under its own platform in Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico Telephone (PRT), América Móvil’s affiliate in this country, launched its so-called Claro TV DTH offer. However, according to what the President of the company, Enrique Ortiz, told the local media, the long term goal will keep on being IPTV offer. The company is waiting for a license to be issued by the Telecommunications Regulating Board.

PRT keeps on differentiating Puerto Rican business from Central America’s. In this country, a platform and individual headends, and a different satellite (AMC-21) are utilized. “We are the only satellite business provider that generates its signal from here, the other providers do it from the United States; that is the reason why the quality of both our signal and audio is better than our competitors'”, Ortiz stated.

Claro TV’s DTH service in Puerto Rico is its only Pay-TV offer; therefore, its business model is different from other countries where DTH is a complement. PRT will offer a bulk package made up by 130 channels, PPV and HD. The service, that required a USD 70 million investment, will be available from USD 34. Claro offers DTH in El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Guatemala, and has recently got its license in Panama.

http://www.maldiviandigital.com/f2/claro-tv-launched-dth-under-its-own-platform-puerto-rico-75120/

ROK, Claro launch Ideas TV in Dominican Republic

Mobile technology and services company ROK Entertainment Group  and mobile operator Claro launched Ideas TV, which offers 11 local and international channels, in the Dominican Republic. With its ROK TV media player, ROK TV works on standard 2.5G cellular signals, as well as 3G, and is independent of carrier network. Initially the service will be available on the Blackberry Bold, Nokia N95, Nokia E71 and the Nokia 6120. In 2008, ROK and Claro’s parent company Telcel launched Ideas TV in Mexico. ROK also offers FreeBe TV, a free, ad-supported mobile IPTV service.

http://broadcastengineering.com/RF/rok-claro-ideas-tv-dominican-republic-20091006/