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MyWay IPTV partners Utiba platform for e-top up
BANGALORE: Utiba, a mobile commerce platforms supplier has partnered with MyWay IPTV for its electronic top up solution. This association highlights the capability of utilising a retail presence enabled by electronic media to distribute or collect payment for an electronic commodity, the company said in a statement.
IPTV provider ‘Aksh’ to increase base in Punjab
Aksh Optifibre Limited, the pioneer in Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) in India, which is targeting a subscriber base of 100,000 subscribers by September 2010, has plans to expand its services in Punjab as well. The company is eyeing 60-70 per cent of the total broadband penetration in Punjab as its potential subscribers for IPTV in coming years.
GoD to Pull Broadband Users
Both state-run operators-MTNL and BSNL-are looking up to games-on-demand (GoD) as they are both experimenting with compelling gaming strategies to attract broadband users. BSNL Chennai Telephones has recently rearranged its pack of online games, and is now even providing it as a freebie on few monthly plans.
‘We are calling IPTV by the wrong name’
The Indian arm of the US-based UTStarcom hopes to reach out to cable operators to sell more of its Internet protocol television (IPTV) solutions. In India, a bulk of the 100,000 IPTV connections — from Bharti Airtel’s to BSNL’s — have UTStarcom at the back end.
Media: The wonder decade
Couch surfing has become more than passive television viewing over the past decade. Indian TV sets now have DVD-like picture quality with loads of value add-ons thanks to new technologies like DTH, CAS and IPTV. The country has about 130 million television households, including 96 million Cable & Satellite (C&S) homes. As per TAM, average time spent watching television per day was 153 minutes in 2008
IPTV subscriber base expected to grow by 51% in APac
Source: Indiantelevision.com
MUMBAI: The subscriber base of IPTV in the Asia-Pacific region is expected to grow by 51 per cent this year closing at 9.4 million users and accounting for 37.6 per cent of the global subscribers, reveals research and consulting firm Frost & Sullivan.
A new analysis from Frost & Sullivan titled ‘Asia-Pacific IPTV Update’ finds [...]
On the way: cable TV without any wire
Source: Business Standard
In what may become a revolution in entertainment, accessing television via cable, IPTV or interactive DTH services is soon going to be via wireless, on the lines of a wi-fi internet connectivity.
This means digital cable TV consumers, who access cable via a set top box (STB), will be able to move their TV [...]
IPTV almost non-existent in India’s pay TV market
Source: TelecomTiger.com
Things are not looking good for IPTV services in India. The reason is quite obvious since the broadband penetration in the country itself is yet to pick-up.
A new research from Screen Digest reveals that IPTV services will find increased uptake after the penetration of broadband services in households having access to pay-TV services increases [...]
Broadband service on TV by March 2010
Source: CIOL News
NEW DELHI, INDIA: Smart Digivision, Myway IPTV service provider, is planning to provide a PC enabled set-top-box using which IPTV subscribers will be able to enjoy broadband service on their TV.
“The STB that we are using at present is like a mini-computer. It has a processor, ram, Linux OS and a USB port. [...]
MyWay or the highway
Source: Business Standard
It’s not quite time for DTH to retire, as a leading IPTV firm would have us believe, since there are 13 mn DTH subscribers compared to IPTV’s 30,000.
It’s time for DTH to retire. That was the boast IPTV firm Smart Digivision made on huge billboards across the country when it began its MyWay [...]
