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Listen to Net radio on your mobile phone

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General Packet Radio works on GSM or CDMA

ON THE MOVE: Mundu Radio... heralds a new era of mobile edutainment for generation on the move

BANGALORE: The days of hovering over a tabletop radio receiver and twirling the knobs to try and catch a distant station have gone with the wind. Internet Radio is here — to catch literally thousands of international news, music and entertainment stations, which are uniformly good, by reaching their Net addresses.

Now a Mumbai-based global software solutions player, Geodesic Information Systems, has created software that allows one to receive Internet Radio on a mobile phone. Called Mundu Radio, the beta or trial version of the necessary software for a virtual radio can be freely downloaded from http://radio.mundu.com/

It works on mobile phones (both GSM and CDMA) that are geared to access the Internet, usually through what is known as a General Packet Radio Service or GPRS, wherever that is provided by the mobile service provider. It streams the radio content at 24 kilobits a second or better.

It is said to be better than the MP3 music streaming that many mobile users are familiar with. Geodesic's co-founder Managing Director, Kiran Kulkarni, says: ``Mundu Radio heralds a new era of unlimited mobile edutainment for a generation on the move."

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