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UTStarcom, an IP-based networking solutions and services provider has struck a three-year contract through its partnership with AKSH Optifibre to deploy its RollingStream IPTV solution at India’s Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd. (MTNL).
The IPTV service will utilize MTNL’s existing broadband network as the content delivery backbone and will consist of traditional broadcast television, video and music-on-demand, videoconferencing capabilities and time-shifted TV.
Commenting on the initiative, RSP Sinha, chairman and managing director at MTNL said, “Consumers have come to expect sterling services that are both innovative and affordable from MTNL. IPTV provides an interactive viewing experience and allows for multitude of exciting revenue generating applications to be deployed. Our existing presence in more than four million homes in New Delhi and Mumbai through our broadband service will give MTNL a tremendous head start in changing the way people watch television.”
All MTNL broadband subscribers in Delhi and Mumbai will have access to the service. The contract marks the first commercial IPTV deployment in India and AKSH Optifibre will be the first company to launch IPTV in India.
Sinha further added, “By pricing the basic level of service at 125 rupees, we hope to attract a large number of our broadband subscribers to our IPTV service and drive revenue growth through the additional value-added services, like time-shift capabilities and video-on-demand, enabled by UTStarcom’s RollingStream.”
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