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Live Sky Sports footie & cricket on Vodafone 3G

by Bob Crabtree on 5 May 2006, 01:54

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Vodafone Live! and Sky and are offering 3G mobile users live coverage of international cricket and Football League play-offs - beginning Saturday May 6.

This will be, Sky says, the first time in the UK that football matches are shown live simultaneously on mobiles and on TV - though what's going to be shown on mobiles may not, seemingly, be exactly the same as TV viewers see.

Things kick-off with Saturday's play-off semi-finals. Around 100 hours of mobile coverage is promised for the first month. That will include 18 live matches - three of them Tests, the others football. Live cricket will run from Thursday May 11 through the summer and end with September's last Test against Pakistan.

Coverage - said to be subject to Vodafone's fair-usage policy - is a bonus freebie for Vodafone Live! 3G users who subscribe to Sky Mobile TV's Ā£5 per month News, Sports and Factual Pack.


Sky has provided us with this list of matches scheduled to be shown live on Sky Mobile TV:

MAY
5 Championship Playoff - Semi Final 1st Leg (19.30)
6 Championship Playoff - Semi Final 1st leg (12.00)
8 Championship Playoff - Semi Final 2nd Leg (19.30)
9 Championship Playoff - Semi Final 2nd Leg (19.30)
11-15 England vs Sri Lanka - Lord's - 1st npower Test (10.30)
11 League One Playoff - Semi Final 1st Leg (19.30)
12 League One Playoff - Semi Final 1st Leg (19.30)
13 League Two Playoff - Semi Final 1st Leg (12.00)
13 League Two Playoff - Semi Final 1st Leg (18.00)
14 League One Playoff - Semi Final 2nd Leg (12.00
15 League One Playoff - Semi Final 2nd Leg (19.30)
16 League Two Playoff - Semi Final 2nd Leg (19.30)
18 League Two Playoff - Semi Final 2nd Leg (19.30)
21 Championship Playoff - Final (14.00)
25-29 England vs Sri Lanka - Edgbaston - 2nd npower Test (10.30)
27 League Two Playoff - Final (14.30)
28 League One Playoff - Final (14.30)

JUNE
2-6 England vs Sri Lanka - Trent Bridge - 3rd npower Test (10.30)
17 England vs Sri Lanka - Lord's - NatWest One Day (10.30)
20 England vs Sri Lanka - Brit Oval - NatWest One Day (10.30)
24 England vs Sri Lanka - Chester-Le-St - NatWest One Day (10.30)
28 England vs Sri Lanka - Old Trafford - NatWest One Day (10.30)

JULY
1 England vs Sri Lanka - Headingley - NatWest One Day (10.30)
13-17 England vs Pakistan - Lord's - 1st npower Test (10.30)
27-31 England vs Pakistan - Old Trafford - 2nd npower Test (10.30)

AUGUST
4 - 8 England vs Pakistan - Headingley - 3rd npower Test (10.30)
17-21 England vs Pakistan - Brit Oval - 4th npower Test (10.30)
30 England vs Pakistan - Cardiff - NatWest One Day (10.30)

SEPTEMBER
2 England vs Pakistan - Lord's - NatWest One Day (10.30)
5 England vs Pakistan - Rose Bowl - NatWest One Day (10.30)
8 England vs Pakistan - Trent Bridge - NatWest One Day (10.30)
10 England vs Pakistan - Edgbaston - NatWest One Day (10.30)

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