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DUBAI, January 30, 2007 - JumpTV
Inc. (AIM, TSX: JTV), the world's
leading broadcaster of ethnic
television over the Internet,
announced that it has partnered with
Arpu+, an Orascom Telecom company (CASE:ORTE),
to broadcast live and archived
Egyptian Football
Association-sanctioned games
worldwide on
www.jumptv.com.
The 5-year partnership will enable
subscribers to initially access more
than 90 seasonal matches from the
Egyptian Football League, the
Egyptian Football Cup and the
Egyptian National Football Team,
held under the umbrella of the
Egyptian Football Association (EFA)
through the JumpTV platform, via the
Company's video-on-demand (VOD),
subscription-video-on-demand (SVOD)
and pay-per-view services-with the
number of matches available expected
to go up each year of the agreement.
The partnership provides for
worldwide access via www.JumpTV.com,
with the exception of certain Middle
Eastern and Asian countries as well
as Italy.
“Over the past two years Egyptian
football has made tremendous strides
and is attaining worldwide
recognition; during 2006, Egypt won
the African Nations Cup for a record
fifth time while Al Ahly – the
back-to-back Egyptian League and
African Champions League title
holder for 2005 and 2006 - clinched
third place in the FIFA Club World
Cup Japan 2006. From its side, in
pursuit of diversifying its
financial resources to better
support the game, EFA has for the
first time licensed its tournaments
digital rights,” said Yassine El
Oraby, managing director of Arpu+.
“We were keen to acquire rights for
such popular content and we believe
that the collaboration between Arpu+
and JumpTV will broaden the
potential online audience for
Egyptian football. We look forward
to setting a global example for
Internet-based sports broadcast
through this long-term relationship
with JumpTV," he added.
"This agreement represents a
deepening of our relationship with
telecom giant Orascom. Recently
JumpTV announced an agreement with
Orascom's LINKdotNET to carry all of
JumpTV's channels
across each of the company's 10 web
portals-representing viewership of
more than 10 million monthly unique
visitors," said Kaleil Isaza Tuzman,
president and chief executive
officer of JumpTV
International. "We believe that
gaining the broadcast rights to one
of the most respected football
leagues in both Africa and the
Middle East is a fantastic
opportunity for JumpTV and is
aligned with our strategy of
providing the best-in-class content
to diaspora communities."
“Throughout the term of our 5-year
exclusive agreement with EFA,
subscribers in the different markets
will be able to stream and download
this content on their mobile phones
and over the Internet,” added Moemen
Ahmed, Business Development Manager
of Arpu+. “It is a service that has
been long awaited by Egyptian
Football fans living abroad,
scattered across the U.S., Canada,
Australia and across the globe. Now
they will be able to follow the
games at a touch of a button.”
"Broadcasting the Egyptian Football
games strongly enhances JumpTV's
portfolio of sports content.
With more than 3.5 million Egyptians
living outside of the country and a
region-wide fan base for
Egyptian football, we believe there
is a large market for this content,"
said Mark David, managing
director of JumpTV International.
Subscribers can choose to purchase a
single game for US$5.95 or opt for a
monthly subscription for US $24.95,
which provides access to roughly 12
to 15 games per month.
About Arpu+:
Arpu+ is an Orascom Telecom
subsidiary, launched in October
2003, and specialized in providing
Value Added Mobile Services through
its combined GSM market knowledge
and application development
capabilities.
Having the heritage of both GSM &
Internet worlds, Arpu+ is well
positioned to be a leading Regional
Data Service Provider, with offices
in Algeria, United Arab Emirates,
Pakistan, Bangladesh and Italy
with its head office in Egypt.
Arpu+ offers its services through
mobile telephone networks of more
than 30 operators in 16 different
markets. Arpu+ develops and manages
a number of WAP portals for mobile
operators; it also offers a wide
array of services ranging from
mobile entertainment (games; ring
tones polyphonic, monophonic & true
tones, as well as animated jokes,
greeting cards and video clips) to
infotainment (news, sports, city
guide & financial indicator) in
addition to community applications
(chatting & messaging); all these
services are along side the
interactive SMS2TV & radio services
where audiences and listeners can
vote and interact with live and
recorded programs.
http://www.arpuplus.com
About JumpTV:
JumpTV (AIM, TSX: JTV) is the
world's leading subscription-based
broadcaster of ethnic television
over the Internet. With over 250
channels from 70+ countries, JumpTV
delivers its subscribers fullscreen
news, sports and entertainment
content on a real-time basis from
all corners of the globe.
JumpTV has subscribers from over 80
countries who view channels on the
JumpTV online network via high-speed
Internet connections on their home
computers, laptops, Internet-enabled
televisions and mobile phones.
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