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MyWay IPTV bags Consumer Innovation Award
Source: Indiantelevision.com MUMBAI: Smart Digivision’s brand ‘MyWay’ IPTV services with SeaChange International has won the Video Services Innovation Award, 2009, in the Consumer Service Innovation segment, at this year’s prestigious Global Telecoms Business Innovation Awards 2009, London. MyWay’s “Video Services Innovation” award was presented in London during Global Telecoms Business Innovation Awards ceremony to recognize innovative projects by telecom operators and service providers from around the world. Guests included chief executive officers, chief technology officers and »»»
UTStarcom: IPTV far more relevant technology to India than any other market in the world
Source: TelecomTiger UTStarcom is riding high on broadband and IPTV uptake in the Indian market. Considered to be a formidable player in the segment, the company foresees a strong business case for IPTV services in India. UTStarcom South Asia MD, Vijay Yadav shares his view points in an exclusive interaction with TelecomTiger. Q1) A lot has been said and written about advantages of IPTV over DTH. The advantages however have not been able to work to advantage of IPTV services where in the real scenario uptake of IPTV services as compared to DTH is very low in India. As a technology solution provider »»»
FOCUS – IPTV struggles for foothold in India; seen subdued
Source: Reuters India MUMBAI (Reuters) – IPTV, touted as the next big thing after the Internet, is unlikely to take off in India for at least two years, as it battles existing modes of entertainment, low awareness, and poor quality issues, industry players said. Launched with great expectations in 2006, IPTV, or Internet Protocol Television, has gained a subscriber base of over 13,000 in India, compared with 10.9 million users of digital pay TV, mainly direct-to-home, or DTH TV, according to Frost & Sullivan. “Indian IPTV deployment has experienced a slow start and it’s becoming »»»
IPTV can still succeed in India, if done right
Source: ZDNetAsia INDIA–IPTV may have failed to garner significant market share in the country, but lower pricing and better last-mile connectivity could drive this sector to 15.9 percent of all residential broadband subscribers in India by end-2011, experts say. It has been six months since Bharti Airtel, India’s largest telecom operator, first launched Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) in selected cities. The technology was also deployed by state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL), and multi-system operator (MSO), Atria Convergence »»»
IPTV gets a cold shoulder
Source: Business Standard Consumers’ reluctance to change coupled with market competition is making it tough for IPTV to capture the Indian imagination Even after 6 months of using the much-hyped Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) service, Abhishek Verma, a 32-year old software engineer, isn’t too kicked about it. He has no qualms about admitting to the teething troubles he had to endure when he started with IPTV, where television channels and interactive services are delivered via high speed internet. But he quickly adds that IPTV is not to be written off. Then there are consumers like 29-year »»»
Move Aside DTH, MyWay IPTV Is Here
Source: WATBlog.com The television medium sure is going places as different business models try to integrate this traditional and trusted medium with the internet services. After covering the rise of web TV in India previously, here, I am going to analyse another interesting service which if everything goes well should take up well with the Indian consumers. And that’s IPTV or Internet Protocol Television. IPTV gives television content which you receive through computer networks just like the internet, rather than the traditional cable formats. The state owned telecom pair of MTNL (Mahangar Telephone »»»
Is India ready for IPTV?
Source: SiliconIndia Bangalore: Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) is all set to revolutionize the way the television is working now. With IPTV, apart from just watching television, one can use the television as a two way media to interact with the world. According to experts, IPTV is a complementary way of transmission of entertainment, data and interactive communication. So far in the evolution of television, there has been only one way of communication (Broadcasting), but the IPTV promises an interactive way of viewing television. But the big question that arises in one’s mind is whether »»»
