RCom's Mobi TV on GSM

Reliance Communications will soon offer 35 television channels for its GSM users. It would use Mimobi, a technology platform developed by the Hyderabad-based Apalya Technologies, to offer the MobiTV service. “We are in advanced talks with Apalya. The tie-up would help us increase the width of the usage,” Mr Krishna Durbha, Head (Value Added Service), RCom, said here in a statement. RCom is already offering 13 news and other TV channels to its CDMA network, using real-time streaming technology. “Apalya’s Mimobi technology uses progressive download method for playing video. Progressive download means the application initially downloads some part of video file, and then it starts playing the video file,” he said.