Hutch along with Radio Mirchi – India’s leading FM Radio provider, HP and Nokia has launched Visual Radio service in India. What is Visual Radio anyway ? It lets the user receive the local FM broadcast on his cell phone along with video being fed into it for users viewing pleasure. Hutch is the first operator to offer such a service in India.
It will be interesting to see the Quality of Service because Hutch cell phone users are so frustrated with their poor network infrastructure(Hutch works only indoors and the agents directly ask to have more connections in the locality if user needs an antenna which will act as a signal booster) atleast in Bangalore and Karnataka which is also evident by the poor addition of subscribers in the past quarter.
okay now im confused.
isnt the visualradio content we recieve just dependant on the radio station and the mobile phone. i didnt know the network mattered
Does that mean only hutch+nokia+radiomirchi would get visual radio ?
ps. is it really that bad in blore. evryone i know in blore complains about it. atleast in chennai hutchs quite good, though theyre a bit slow with features these days.
Mobile Phones are equipped to receive FM at no cost to the users. Hutch involvement is to carry the Video and thus the subscriber gets billed for GPRS usage.
Thats a goood step from Hutch.
But i do agree the that the hutch network has gone useless.
it just does not pick up signals inside the houses & buildings.