BSNL launches IPTV
31 Dec 2008,
New Delhi: In yet another attempt to push its falling landline numbers, state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) on Wednesday announced the
nation-wide launch of Interactive Personalized Television & Video Services (IPTV) for its customers.
The telco said that these services would reinvent home television entertainment as it would enable its customers watch programmes according to their convenience from more than 140 TV channels.
BSNL will also offer customers who subscribe for these services an extensive movie library with Hollywood and Bollywood titles at no extra cost, the telco said.
The Transmission of content through Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) system implies a system wherein digital content services are delivered to subscribing customers using a broadband internet connection.
BSNL will be providing these services in collaboration with Smart Digivision Pvt Ltd. The Smart TV Group, consisting of Smart Digivision Pvt Ltd and Smart Broadband Services Pvt Ltd, has entered into long term contracts with MTNL and BSNL for providing co-branded interactive video services to their customers in 54 large cities across India.
Customers who avail IPTV services from BSNL can also be able to get video, music, games and eduction on demand.
In the next phase, the subscribers will get additional features such as being able to pause live TV, personalized stock ticker and digital digital Instant & scheduled recording.
"We have ambitious plans for broadband expansion. For the coming three years, we have plans to add three million broadband connections every year," BSNL CMD Kuldeep Goyal said while launching these services.
HFCL promoter, Mr Mahendra Nahata, who is also the chairman of Smart Digivision Pvt said that the company's engagement with BSNL, reflects Smart Digivision's long term strategy to become consumers' preferred entertainment provider".
31 Dec 2008,
New Delhi: In yet another attempt to push its falling landline numbers, state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) on Wednesday announced the
nation-wide launch of Interactive Personalized Television & Video Services (IPTV) for its customers.
The telco said that these services would reinvent home television entertainment as it would enable its customers watch programmes according to their convenience from more than 140 TV channels.
BSNL will also offer customers who subscribe for these services an extensive movie library with Hollywood and Bollywood titles at no extra cost, the telco said.
The Transmission of content through Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) system implies a system wherein digital content services are delivered to subscribing customers using a broadband internet connection.
BSNL will be providing these services in collaboration with Smart Digivision Pvt Ltd. The Smart TV Group, consisting of Smart Digivision Pvt Ltd and Smart Broadband Services Pvt Ltd, has entered into long term contracts with MTNL and BSNL for providing co-branded interactive video services to their customers in 54 large cities across India.
Customers who avail IPTV services from BSNL can also be able to get video, music, games and eduction on demand.
In the next phase, the subscribers will get additional features such as being able to pause live TV, personalized stock ticker and digital digital Instant & scheduled recording.
"We have ambitious plans for broadband expansion. For the coming three years, we have plans to add three million broadband connections every year," BSNL CMD Kuldeep Goyal said while launching these services.
HFCL promoter, Mr Mahendra Nahata, who is also the chairman of Smart Digivision Pvt said that the company's engagement with BSNL, reflects Smart Digivision's long term strategy to become consumers' preferred entertainment provider".
