Gorillabox powers my4n.TV live TV service for mobile.

November 18th 2008 - Gorillabox, a fully managed pan-European mobile TV enabler has won the contract to deploy the mobile service for my4n.TV (www.my4ntv.com) a Paris-based distributor of ethnic TV over mobile networks.

The service, powered by Gorillabox is due to launch by December 2008 and will comprise a wide range of international TV channels including BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera, Antena 3... This innovative mobile service will first be deployed in France in December, with rollouts in other European countries due to follow on soon afterwards.

Customers will be able to select a pack of live TV channels to suit their language preference from English speaking channels to Arabic and even Korean video content. The service will be targeted at foreign communities and those eager for foreign news : expatriates, immigrants, international students, international executives.

“My4n.TV has selected Gorilla Box among the few proven providers of live mobile streaming in Europe” says Daniel Katz, Founder, my4n.TV. “Gorillabox’ technology will enable us to offer a wide range of TV channels from a variety of sources including satellite and IP. I was also pleased with the Gorillabox approach which is always flexible and business-like.”

As my4n.TV’s full turnkey provider, Gorillabox will manage mobile live TV service. This includes everything from ingesting and encoding the content and streaming this to mobile phones across Europe.

“We are delighted to be working with my4n.TV on this exciting service. It is breaking new ground in the process of capturing mobile TV feeds from satellite and streaming them over 3G networks.

Live TV and News is always a popular service and the quality of our live streamed BBC, CNN and Al Jazeera channels is awesome! The G-Box platform can handle huge volumes of video and TV and stream them over multiple networks and multiple countries simultaneously.” says Christian Harris, founder and CEO of Gorillabox.

About my4n.TV
my4n.TV / myForeign.TV is the 1st distributor of ethnic TV channels on mobile phones in Europe. Founded by seasoned media, IT and marketing professionals it won the HEC Business School Start-up award in 2007 and the Telecom Institute Foundation prize in 2008. The service will be launched in France in December 2008 and is set for a pan-European roll-out in the course of 2009.
www.my4ntv.com

About Gorillabox
With over 25 years of operator, developer and content provider experience behind it, Gorillabox is a fully managed service provider powering mobile TV for broadcasters, content owners and marketers.

Gorillabox’s core offering is streaming video content to mobile handsets anywhere in Europe and the US on any scale. Around this, Gorillabox also offers search optimisation, advertising, downloads, WAP design and development and consultancy on how to build successful services.