Hi3G
announced their exclusive rights to send ice hockey content to 3G mobiles
from Elitserien. The agreement with Svenska Hockeyligan AB covers both
content rights as well as sponsorship of Elitserien.Through
their 3G mobiles, Hi3Gs customers will be able to see, and interact
on excerpts from Elitserie matches, goals, match sequences, commentaries,
pictures, results, archive material, goal makers and results tables.
The rights are exclusive for Hi3G for all mobile technologies including
GSM and UMTS for three seasons until the end of April 2005. The details
of the agreement have not been publicized.
-We
work on putting together a tantalizing offer of mobile 3G services for
our customers. Sport is definitely one of the content areas where we
invest, and our customers will appreciate the closeness to their favorite
teams through 3G mobiles. With ice hockey being one of Sweden’s
most popular sports, connecting it to this very positive force, says
Chris Bannister, CEO Hi3G, will further strengthen our future brand.
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For Svenska Hockeyligan it is valuable to take part in the development
towards new forms of exposing high quality ice hockey. Our vision is
that the 3G service offering will bring interested fans a quick and
good picture of current hockey events. At the same time, we are looking
forward to our sponsorship co-operation with Hi3G, says Hans Nyberg,
VD Svenska Hockeyligan.
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Hi3G
announced their exclusive rights to send ice hockey content to 3G mobiles
from Elitserien. The agreement with Svenska Hockeyligan AB covers both
content rights as well as sponsorship of Elitserien.Through
their 3G mobiles, Hi3Gs customers will be able to see, and interact
on excerpts from Elitserie matches, goals, match sequences, commentaries,
pictures, results, archive material, goal makers and results tables.
The rights are exclusive for Hi3G for all mobile technologies including
GSM and UMTS for three seasons until the end of April 2005. The details
of the agreement have not been publicized. 