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SKY'S MOBILE UK FIRST

UK pay-TV platform Sky has unveiled plans to broadcast live sport simultaneously on both conventional TV and mobile phones.

The broadcaster says it will show cricket and soccer live across both platforms – beginning this weekend – as part of its Sky Mobile TV service.

And it claims in its first month alone it will beam close to 100-hours of content to mobile handsets.

The service kicks-off with coverage of this weekend’s Football League play-off games, and will then feature England’s first Test match of the summer which gets underway next week against Sri Lanka.