New Delhi, Sept. 29 Airtel’s IPTV consumers can now enjoy a much better service with broadband speeds of 1 Mbps.

The Internet Protocol TV service, offering triple play or telephone, broadband and television services on a single line, is currently available in Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida. The new faster connection “Magic@Home Freedom” will be available for a monthly subscription of Rs 1,899.

The “Magic@Home Turbo” package, costing Rs 1,499 a month, runs at 512 kbps during the day, but gets doubled to 1 Mbps during nights.

Airtel’s IPTV service was launched in January at 256 kbps speed with an installation charge of Rs 3,999. The company has since reduced the installation charges to Rs 2,499 with wi-fi, and Rs 1,999 without wi-fi. The package currently offered is 384 kbps service offering 135 channels and three months free pay-per-view for Rs 1,299 a month.

Announcing the new faster packages, Mr Vikas Singh, CMO, Telemedia Services, Bharti Airtel, said in a release, that the new packages would open up new segments of the Triple Play market and attract heavy broadband users who will benefit from the higher bandwidth.

The two packages would also take the company’s IPTV service to the untapped sections of the market, he added.

Launched in January in the NCR region, the service is to be rolled out to the top eight cities, including Bangalore, Chennai and Mumbai in a phased manner.