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http://www.tvover.net [IPTV News, Events, Jobs, Service Providers - TVover.net] India's Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) rolled out it's IPTV service in Mumbai on Saturday marking the first IPTV deployment in India. The commerical launch of the service will be available to MTNL subscribers on October 21st and MTNL will be launching IPTV service in Delhi on the 17th.

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[ Roam4free] MTNL launches India’s first IPTV: As a first step, 25 channels will be provided which will go up to 200-250 at a later stage. Initially the service will be offered to the existing 2.2 million MTNL broadband subscribers in Mumbai.

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