The Sky plans would trump the video content currently available on phones, which is mostly limited to short clips.
The company is now in talks with "third generation" mobile phone operators about tying up a revenue-sharing deal under which consumers would be charged for its content on their mobile phone bills, reports The Independent newspaper.
The paper reports that one such operator is bound to be Vodafone, the world's biggest mobile phone company and the leader in the UK market.
Vodafone has signed up 300,000 customers in the UK since it launched 3G services November. But consumers seem happy with existing 2.5G technology and have so far seen little point in upgrading to more expensive services.
The eventual launch of content-rich services such as BSkyB's could change that, although television over mobile phones is far from a guaranteed success.
Separately, Sky disclosed that its next generation of Sky + boxes would have a broadband capability. But consumers would only be able to go through Sky to use the function to download "on demand" content.






