Now you can get Fox News on your cell phone. Fox News has started a new service that will let cell phone users access an audio feed of the cable channel. The live feed will be available 24 hours per day, 7 days a week by dialing "#FOXN" on your cell phone. The service starts with Cingular at a costs of $2.99 per month plus applicable per-minute airtime charges.Fox News has partnered with Single Touch Interactive, an Encinitas, Calif., which has existing deals with BET (Black Entertainment Television) and Univision. However, Fox News will be the first news channel to have a Single Touch audio stream.It's far from the first mobile deal for Fox News. There is a special mobile Internet site that allows cell and BlackBerry users to access a quick-loading site. The channel has been available for more than a year as a live video stream on Sprint, with almost a million subscribers.
Cingular also offers video clips. But with the Single Touch Interactive technology, the audio stream news and its daily primetime lineup including "The O'Reilly Factor" will be available to people without the expensive video cell phones.