First mobile phone TV service planned

China Mobile has teamed up with Shanghai Media Group, the only Internet protocol television licensee in the country, to feed television content over mobile phones, the South China Morning Post reported. The service, to be delivered through China Mobile's 2.5-generation, GPRS-based data and multimedia platform Monternet, could be launched by the end of this year. China Mobile will become the country's first mobile operator and second telecommunications group to offer the service, following Shanghai Media Group's Internet television agreement with fixed-line operator China Telecom.