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Live TV, high speed data download and video streaming on mobile phone on Thursday became a reality in India, with state owned MTNL launching the next generation 3G technology-based Telecom services in the country.



Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh inaugurated the service and Minister for Communications and IT, A. Raja presided over the function,at India Telecom 2008, in New Delhi.

The country’s first video call was enabled by Motorola’s 3G network and Motorola’s MOTORAZR2 V9 Ferrari Special Edition mobile phone.

MTNL’s customers in the metros of New Delhi and Mumbai will be the first to experience new services like high speed data transfers, video streaming
and conferencing, mobile TV, video mobile surveillance and mobile internet broadband.

MTNL has selected Motorola’s next-generation 3G network infrastructure that includes radio access network, core network elements and various services like project management, networks deployments and system integration.



BSNL will launch 3G services in Chennai next month.