BSNL facilitates watching TV on mobile handsets

Kolkata: Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has announced the launch of its 'TV in mobile handset' service, across the eastern and north-eastern regions of the country.

BSNL's GSM customers can now view 12 television channels on their mobile handsets and by the end of the year around 32 channels will be provided by the service.

BSNL has partnered with Apalya Technologies Pvt Ltd to provide content in the form of TV signals that will be available on the BSNL GSM handsets.

Initially this service will be available on select Nokia handsets, and will soon be extended to Sony Ericsson and Motorola handsets as well.

The list of channels include NDTV, CNBC, Aajtak, Times Now, Zoom, Bindaas, ETV, and TV9.

Customers can visit mimobi.tv on their mobile phones to view the TV content, which will be free for the next 30 days.