All Entries in the "Reliance IPTV" Category
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 [...]
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 [...]
Adult-rated foreign films may be allowed on digital platforms
Source: Business Standard
With broadcasters and the government close to working out a new content code for television, foreign movies with partial nudity and mature content may soon be allowed at all time bands on digital addressable media platforms like direct-to-home (DTH) services, conditional access system and IPTV platforms, which have the provision of a parental [...]
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 [...]
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) [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
