Watch the All Blacks live on Vodafone

Thursday, 31 May 2007, 2:05 pm
Press Release: Vodafone

31 May 2007

Watch the All Blacks live on your Vodafone 3G Mobile

Vodafone and SKY TV are delighted to announce a season of live rugby screened straight to your mobile phone. Vodafone 3G customers will be able to watch the All Blacks battle it out live against France this weekend and throughout June & July, including all the games from the Tri Nations series.

Stephen Smith, Vodafone’s GM of Media and Entertainment says, “We are thrilled to be able to offer Vodafone customers the exclusive opportunity to watch the All Blacks live through their 3G mobiles. Unlike other mobile operators we are able to supply to our customers exclusive premium live sporting events on mobile TV. Vodafone is the clear leader in mobile entertainment.”

SKYTV CEO John Fellett says “This is another terrific example of SKY being able to offer content to customers anytime, anywhere so that they can watch what they want, when they want to. The Tri Nations series is very popular with our viewers and to be able to give them this viewing flexibility with our partner Vodafone is fantastic.”

The games screened live to Vodafone Mobile TV will be:

All Blacks V France – 2nd June All Black V France – 9th June All Blacks V Canada – 16th June All Blacks V Springboks – 24th June All Blacks V Wallabies – 30th June Australia V Springboks – 14th July All Blacks V Wallabies – 21st July

Customers will need to be within the 3G coverage area, be using a 3G mobile from Vodafone and subscribe to the SKY Mobile TV channel, which offers eight channels of news, entertainment and sport. The games are available for $3 per game in addition to the $2.50 weekly subscription to Sky Mobile TV.

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