Telstra iPhone customers who have been hanging out for the ability to stream Foxtel to their Apple handset, there’s now an app for that. The Mobile Foxtel app from Telstra is a free download which lets you subscribe to over 30 channels of pay TV content on your phone.
The actual watching Foxtel is unmetered for NextG customers, with day passes costing $4 and monthly subscription passes starting at $12. As an added bonus, if you subscribe before March 1, you’ll also get access to Foxtel’s Winter Olympics channels for free.
It’s a shame that this will only work for Telstra customers. If it was open to any network, but metered, it might even give customers from Optus, Voda and Three an incentive to move to NextG after their monthly data allowance was blown out after an episode of Family Guy.
Daz
February 19, 2010 at 1:28 PM
Why does it have to disconnect wi-fi to work? Can’t wi-fi and 3G co-exist?
Report PermalinkTristan
February 19, 2010 at 1:35 PM
Okay… So I thought I’d give it a go…
Quality of the video is good, but the app pauses everytime a notification comes through, which means it takes a few seconds to receonnect, missing parts of your show.
But my biggest problem is that the shows have been shortened? I haven’t read anything on the Foxtel site and maybe this isn’t for all shows… BUT… VERY ANNOYING when I was watching a whole episode of Married with Children and it was over in about 6mins!
Report Permalinkmikeys
February 19, 2010 at 3:06 PM
Was this announced 4-6 months ago? Ont his very site no less. Pretty sure it was cos I have an iPhone and tried it at the time.
Report PermalinkPeter
February 19, 2010 at 3:52 PM
Hi Mikeys,
Report PermalinkThat was the streaming service that launched in October. This is a new native app that has a built in TV guide and scrolling channel selector. You can preview the app here on iTunes app store: http://bit.ly/MobileFOXTEL
Peter
Telstra