SlingMedia announces partnership with 3 Group

The other day, we mentioned SlingMedia had a pending announcement regarding a partnership with a major mobile carrier. The company that is famous for its location-free TV – Slingbox – has just announced plans to team up with 3 Group, a large provider of commercial 3G services to provide customers with TV channels on their mobile handsets. One of the products that will include the new service is the X-Series from 3 Group. Customers that have both a Slingbox and an X-Series handset will be able to watch anything you can watch on your home TV.

Additionally, SlingMedia is has announced that the SlingPlayer Mobile software will be available on two new mobile handsets, the Nokia N73 and Sony Ericsson W950i – including but not limited to “terrestrial TV, Freeview, cable, and satellite TV. In addtion SlingPlayer Mobile lets customers control their TV recorder at home to watch recorded shows, pause and rewind live TV or even queue a recording when away from home using the handset.”

At this time, the 3 Group / Slingbox partnership will only be available to customers in Italy, the UK, Australia, Austria, Sweden, Denmark, Hong Kong, Israel and Ireland.