Fon TV Outdoored
Black Star Television in collaboration with GT Onetouch has introduced Africa's first mobile phone television called Fon TV.
GT Onetouch will thus be the first mobile service provider in Ghana to deploy the product on its network.
The phone device has full functionalities- call placing and reception, sms texting, e-mail and several other services.
While the launch took place last Wednesday, the service is already deployed nationwide for full scale commercial operation after nearly a year of test transmission that produced excellent results.
This means television viewing will get better in Ghana as viewers will have more options, operators of Black Star Television, announced at a gathering at the Accra International Conference Centre.
The service is said to employ the terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting (tdm-b) technology, pioneered and developed in South Korea, which enables crystal-clear images, as well as stable, non-fluctuating channel viewing of TV programmers on t-dmb phones, laptops, and other digital receivers.
Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Joe Ghartey who launched the product said Fon TV exemplifies the often repeated catch phrase of the world being a global village and also a clear demonstration that the 21st century is one of a digital age.
On his part, Do Hyun Kim, Managing Director of Black Star TV, said the company was excited to introduce the new service in Ghana as it seeks to penetrate the African market, explaining that the introduction of the 'valuable service' to offer an alternative to Ghanaian lifeclasss was ample testimony of the company's confidence in Ghana's ICT sector and the great opportunities it offers.
Yoofi Grant, Chairman of Onetouch was happy a purely Ghanaian collaboration was yielding the unique result, stressing it is another first for Ghana.
He said the mobile phone has become indispensable and it is only natural that service providers give more innovative products for consumers, adding that with the launch of the Fon TV, people can now watch whatever their favorite programmes are virtually out of their pockets and announced Onetouch would provide two months' free subscription for the first 1,000 people to purchase the product.
From Business Desk