SFR has 140,000 mobile TV users, launches Canal Plus

Rating: and another one

By Annie Turner

These days you can’t turn round without catching your shin on yet another
mobile TV offering. SFR says it has nearly 140,000 mobile TV users at the
end of March, up from 70,000 at the end of December. Now French mobile
operator SFR and pay TV group Canal Plus have launched Canal Plus Chaine
Mobile, a mobile phone TV channel that can be accessed any time via the
Vodafone live! portal.

It’s not that I dispute any particular organisation’s claims about the
number of viewers it has, it’s just that the situation reminds me of the
situation with Christ’s cross in the Middle Ages, that is, had one stuck all
the splinters together that were claimed to be from that original cross, you
could have built a galleon with them. If you add all the people together who
are supposedly hooked on mobile TV, you’d probably find it amounted to
multiples of the world’s population.

Anyhow, the new Canal channel offers whole episodes of Canal Plus’
programmes, such as Les Guinols de l’info, le Grand Journal and Salut les
Terriens. Canal Plus Chaine Mobile also includes made-for-mobile
programming, including sports news, league tables and football goals.

Subscribers with a 3G/3G+ handset go online at Vodafone live! to subscribe.
The service costs EUR 5 per month, with the first month free. The service
also offers Canal Plus VOD, ringtones and pictures and the Canal Plus Le
Bouquet programme guide.

Mind the splinters.

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