Over 270K Sign-Up for 3G Wireless Football

[3Man]

As the Barclays Premiership kicks off this weekend, 3, the UK’s first video mobile network, has announced over 270,000 registrations for its football service including video highlights, text alerts, club news and video goal alerts.

Gareth Jones, 3’s COO commented: “3 leads the market with the most innovative and entertaining services on mobile and 3’s football offering is no exception. 270,000 fans have already signed up for our football alerts in time for the new season, that’s 3 times the capacity of the new Wembley Stadium.”

3 offers fans the very best of football on mobile with manager interviews, video previews and analysis, UEFA Champions League highlights and content from Soccer AM, Sky Sports and Football 365.

Every Saturday throughout the Barclays Premiership season, 3’s customers can watch video highlights of all the afternoon’s matches at 5:15, with all other matches available just five minutes after the whistle. On 3, you can even sign-up for club news and score alerts sent straight to your inbox.

At peak times last season, more fans were following football on 3 than walking through the turnstiles at Premiership clubs.

[Mosser]

Now that it sad!, why not just sit at home and watch it on a big screen !!,

I cant understand people wanting to seriously watch videos and football and stuff on their mobile, it is way too small, I'd much rather be in a comfy armchair with a big 36" widescreen tv to watch it all on!, but judging from the signups to the footie highlights, i guess i'm in a minority on this one !

[gajet]

lol some people have lives and go outside once in a while, or work or have hobbies or a multitude of other things than just sit at home in an armchair and watch telly.

[kapow]

C'Mon mosser think with an open mind! What if youre on abus travelling for 2 hours and Liverpool have made an amazing comeback and go on the win the premiership this season lol and champions league and desperately need to see the scores knowing that you could still be stuck for another hour then im sure you can understand why people would want to watch clips on their mobile while on a bus! Just a small example lol.