The Dutch incumbent telco KPN has launched its new mobile add-on service MobielTV. It will allow the operator’s ‘Surf&Mail Totaal’ UMTS subscribers to watch television on their mobile phones round-the-clock.
Up until the end of the year, KPN will not levy any additional charges for the service, which offers the public broadcasters Nederland 1, Nederland 2 and Nederland 3, along with RTL 4, RTL 7/Z, SBS6, TMF, Eurosport, CNN, Cartoon Network and Discovery Channel.
The free introductory period is to gain insight into viewer behaviour for KPN and the broadcasters in anticipation of the DVB-H service, scheduled for launch in early 2008.