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From somewhere on the net : Bharti AirTel plans to launch triple play services — phone, internet and cable TV — in 90 cities to its fixed-line customers. Bharti Airtel Chairman Sunil Mittal told PTI that the company was in the process of finalising commercial arrangements for offering ‘triple play’, which is currently being extended to its fixed-line customers in Gurgaon on a pilot basis. “When we go into the final commercial mode which will happen in the next 4-5 months, then anybody who has an AirTel connection can get Triple Play,” Mittal said. It has 1.5 million fixed line customers currently, which will go up to 2.5 million next year...
Can anyone in Gurgaon give me a feedback on this. Also is this going to be through IPTV ? How is IPTV compared to Cable TV or even DTH..?
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Reliance Communications Ventures (RCoVL) plans to roll out IPTV services in India by the end of 2006, and may rope in Microsoft funding. It is also buying up content developers
In addition to negotiating distribution partnerships, the telco has been buying up TV and video production facilities over the last few months, including taking a 51 percent stake in Adlabs, a film production and distribution company.
"That will give it more control over the supply of video for the service -- from making sure it has enough programming to simplifying the distribution process", according to lightreading.com.
The carrier is running a trial in 20000 homes on the Microsoft TV platform and is in talks with Motorola for set-top boxes. With more than 60,000 km of fiber laid, Reliance provides the country's biggest testing ground for IPTV, and Microsoft is even talking about investing in the venture.
At an event coinciding with Reliance's recent listing on the national stock exchanges, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer spoke via video conferencing (showing off Microsoft TV) and said the company is looking at picking up a strategic equity stake in Reliance "due to the immense potential of the IPTV business in India." Microsoft and Cisco Systems Inc. have also committed to helping Reliance roll out the access infrastructure to support the service.
Reliance Infocomm has been working with Microsoft since back in 2003. The carrier planned to launch its Netway service over high-speed Ethernet connections early last year, but it has been struggling to build up its broadband subscriptions and in the meantime got sidetracked by internal strife.
Can anyone in Gurgaon give me a feedback on this. Also is this going to be through IPTV ? How is IPTV compared to Cable TV or even DTH..?
Also:
Reliance Communications Ventures (RCoVL) plans to roll out IPTV services in India by the end of 2006, and may rope in Microsoft funding. It is also buying up content developers
In addition to negotiating distribution partnerships, the telco has been buying up TV and video production facilities over the last few months, including taking a 51 percent stake in Adlabs, a film production and distribution company.
"That will give it more control over the supply of video for the service -- from making sure it has enough programming to simplifying the distribution process", according to lightreading.com.
The carrier is running a trial in 20000 homes on the Microsoft TV platform and is in talks with Motorola for set-top boxes. With more than 60,000 km of fiber laid, Reliance provides the country's biggest testing ground for IPTV, and Microsoft is even talking about investing in the venture.
At an event coinciding with Reliance's recent listing on the national stock exchanges, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer spoke via video conferencing (showing off Microsoft TV) and said the company is looking at picking up a strategic equity stake in Reliance "due to the immense potential of the IPTV business in India." Microsoft and Cisco Systems Inc. have also committed to helping Reliance roll out the access infrastructure to support the service.
Reliance Infocomm has been working with Microsoft since back in 2003. The carrier planned to launch its Netway service over high-speed Ethernet connections early last year, but it has been struggling to build up its broadband subscriptions and in the meantime got sidetracked by internal strife.