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Lower DTH losses help Bharti beat expectations
Source: Livemint.com Telecom company Bharti Airtel Ltd’s reported profit for the quarter ended March was slightly ahead of street expectations, but analysts weren’t enthused about the results. To start with, revenue growth was unexciting in each of the company’s business segments. Total revenues grew by just 2% and the key wireless business reported a mere 3.6% growth in revenues, compared with an average of over 7.4% in the preceding three quarters. The wireline and broadband business grew by just 1.5%, and corporate services and long distance fell by about 1%. Wireless revenues were affected »»»
Competition to drive IPTV growth in India
Source: Indiantelevision.com NEW DELHI: India has the largest potential for growth in the IPTV sector, but has the slowest migration to digital technology if one goes by the number of broadband connectivity. This was the general view of speakers at a session on IPTV at the Convergence India 2009. CopperGate president William Simmelink, Cisco’s Asia Pacific region business development manager Yongsub Lee, and UTStarcom’s MD for South Asia Vijay Yadav said while IPTV leading to home networking and a host of value-added services could be a boon for the user, this may take some more time in countries »»»
Trai issues norms for non-discriminatory access to content
Source: Indiantelevision.com MUMBAI: Digital cable TV, direct-to-home (DTH) and IPTV operators can’t demand carriage fee and still get that channel under the “must provide” clause, a Trai guideline on Interconnect Regulation said. Addressable delivery platform providers can, however, charge a fee for placement of the channel on their networks. For facilitating introduction and roll out of voluntary Cas (conditional access system), Trai has made it mandatory for all broadcasters to have reference interconnect offers (RIO) for all addressable systems. The sector regulator has also »»»
Slump forces telcos to go slow on IPTV plans
Source: The Financial Express Mumbai: Telecom companies planning to enter the IPTV (internet protocol television) market may delay their entry, whereas others who are planning to expand their IPTV offerings like MTNL, BSNL, Bharti Airtel and HFCL to other parts of the country may reconsider it, feel industry analysts. Investment delays in infrastructure owing to the downturn, complex user interface and insufficient bandwidth availability would be the major reasons leading to the slow growth of the IPTV market, they say. Jehil Thakkar, an analyst with KPMG says, “India will see barely 250,000 »»»
Bharti Airtel launches Triple Play with Airtel digital TV interactive
Source: Express Computer Bharti Airtel recently announced the debut of its Triple Play Service with the launch of Airtel digital TV interactive – its Internet Protocol Television Service. With this, Airtel delivers the Triple Play Advantage of Telephony, broadband and Entertainment Service to its customers. The Triple Play Service will be initially available to customers in Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida and then to customers in Mumbai and Bangalore. On this occasion, Atul Bindal, President-Telemedia Services, Bharti Airtel, said, “Today, with the launch of Airtel digital TV interactive, we begin »»»
IPTV service yet to take on, but providers set target of 1 million subscribers by 2012
Source: Livemint.com New Delhi: India’s largest mobile phone operator, Bharti Airtel Ltd’s launch of Internet protocol television (IPTV) service on 19 January marked the entry of the first private player in the space so far served by state-run telcos Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd, or BSNL, and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd, or MTNL. Anil Dhirubhai Ambani-led Reliance Communications Ltd, or RCom, which has already had a trial run of IPTV service last year, is believed to be the next in line, followed by Tata Teleservices Ltd, and multi-system operators (MSOs) such as Rajan Raheja-owned Hathway and »»»
Airtel digital TV Interactive IPTV plan for existing broadband customers
Source: sifybroadband.techwhack.com Airtel has revealed an IPTV plan for existing customers who do not want to subscribe to the 256kbps package being offered in their combo packages. This plan is aimed at customers who are already using Airtel Broadband on higher speeds. The package name is Premium Pack and it allows the user to keep his existing high speed broadband connection. Details: Rental: Rs 399Number of channels: 135Free Pay per View: 1 Movie (worth Rs. 25)Number of Time Shift TV Channels: 25Number of games: 5 Other features include free access to iAstro, iMatinee, iCity. ...
