| MUMBAI: Nexage Inc., a Washington-based wireless software and
services company, has launched PhoneCast, an end-to-end mobile video solution
for wireless carriers, content providers and media companies. PhoneCast helps
customers to watch live TV, live events and sportscasts, and video on demand content
on their mobile phones globally. PhoneCast MVS is a production and distribution
Studio for Mobile Channel, allowing companies to broadcast their existing live
channels or build their own unique TV channel, and is 3GPP / 3GPP2 and Window
Media standards compliant. PhoneCast reduces the complexity involved in
ingestion, management, publication and distribution of video content, including
streaming, thus offering media companies and content providers to offer TV programming
and mobile video services directly to mobile users, states an official release. PhoneCast
allows wireless carriers to offer mobile subscribers a new and desirable service
that is easy to understand, fun to use and has obvious usage increase potential
and opportunities for brand differentiation, including tools for user generated
content. PhoneCast allows insertion of advertisements and promotions within
live TV programming and VOD services. PhoneCast modular and flexible architecture
supports easy and seamless integration of encoding and streaming servers, allowing
operators globally to offer VOD and live TV services to every handset supporting
video players, the release adds. Nexage is currently working with various
content providers and carrier partners to launch the mobile TV services in the
US and the European market soon. |