IPTVision: Govt. Policy on IPTV and HITS Likely to be Announced Next Week. An ...

IPTVision > Govt. Policy on IPTV and HITS Likely to be Announced Next Week. An ...

[WATBlog.com - Web, Advertising and Technology Blog in India] IOL and Aksh have tied up with MTNL in Mumbai and Delhi and with BSNL in other areas to provide IPTV services on the state-owned carriers’ broadband network,as of date state owned companies have rolled out their IPTV services

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[India Broadband Forum Feed] Question: 162 IPTV channels by IOL.: BSNL have supposedly started giving IPTV service on their broadband line in a few cities in the country. My queries regarding this are as follows:

[DTH Networks India Forums - All Forums] MTNL broadband subscribers can use Aksh’s IPTV and Video Phone ...: Quote: MTNL and Aksh Optifibre have launched IPTV- Aksh-Tel and Video Phone Calling Services- V Spyk in Mumbai. All Mumbai based MTNL broadband subscribers can soon use the facility of Aksh’s IPTV and Video Phone Calling services.

[15 most recent topics - Dishnews Satellite Television Discussion Forum] DishNews Daily - Telcos ask TRAI to fix channel price for IPTV: As of now, only state-owned telcos BSNL and MTNL are offering IPTV services in select cities. So their franchisee partners like Aksh Optifibres, Time Broadband and IOL Broadband strike revenue deals with broadcasters for getting content .

[contentsutra.com] Telcos Ask TRAI To Fix Channel Price For IPTV: However, the problem with IPTV lies not in its cost or content but its reach, which both BSNL and MTNL have under-utilized in spite of having proprietary last mile access. Till the time TRAI manages to create an environment that facilitates entry of private players, IPTV will continue to stagnate and infact digress in comparison to an increasingly competitive DTH sector.

[contentsutra.com] Telcos Ask TRAI To Fix Channel Price For IPTV: Content differentiation on IPTV is limited as well, considering the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting will be regulating content. Currently, to avail MTNL's IPTV service in New Delhi, a broadband connection is pre-requisite and .

[maldiviandigital® :: Forum] BSNL approaches Trai on regulating TV channel prices for IPTV: \nTrai advisor, convergence technologies, SK Gupta told indiantelevision.com: "We are aware that there is need to look into the price for channels on the emerging IPTV platform. There is an issue, but that will come after the regulatory issues have been frozen.

[Forums @ vinuthomas.com] BSNL goofs up again: Latest Post: phoenix wrote: Quote: BSNL goofs up again Pritesh Basu KOLKATA, May 21: The much-hyped Internet Protocol Television (IPTV), launched almost a year before, has hardly lived up to the expectation as Bharat Sanchar Nigam .

[Stalin's blog :-:] 8 Mbps Broadband Connection: The new scheme titled `Broadband Multiplay’ will have voice, video and Internet protocol television (IPTV) services in one package. While at present the connectivity speed of BSNL broadband connection is two megabits per second (MBPS), .

[Broadband Blog] BSNL Broadband:IPTV and beyond: There has been a usual media excitement and “buzz” about IPTV finally being launched. For the plain uninitiated, IPTV involves streaming of digital content via your wireline and set top box.

[The Glowria IPTV Blog] IPTV in India: First to take off with consumers?: Martina Bruder, glowria's VP of Business Development will be discussing lessons to be learned from IPTV and HD VoD rollouts in Europe.

[Soumya's Weltanschauung] Television at India - the new frontiers:: "It is estimated that broadband will overtake dial-up in 2008-2009 and by 2009-2010 broadband connections will be 75% of the market so it's evident that IPTV will be a platform to reckon with for cable and DTH."IPTV has the power to elevate the usage of Internet by TV-only homes by converting their TV into virtual PC. But Arpita Pal Agrawal, associate director, PricewaterhouseCoopers feels this could be challenging as TV, not the PC, is the household media centre in lower- and middle-class Indian households.