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Bharti Plans To Launch IPTV
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Friday, January 20, 2006:
Sunil Mittal has serious ambitions of entering the triple play arena. Having built a strong mobile phone business, he is quietly working on a project that would enable Bharti to offer video content through its telephone lines.
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Bharti has installed a digital head-end in Gurgaon on the outskirts of Delhi. The test run is on with a clutch of free-to-air (FTA) TV channels and other video content. UTStarcom is building the entire IPTV architecture for Bharti. This includes the head-end and the digital set-top boxes (STBs). According to an industry source, UTStarcom is the digital service vendor for Bharti's IPTV and the set-top box will be two-way enabled.
Bharti has approximately 5,00,000 fixed telephone retail customers. Now, it wants to ride video content through its copper network. "Most of Bharti's current presence in fixed line telephony is in national capital region (NCR), Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Haryana. The company will be initially targeting these markets," says the source.
Bharti is working on an offering of 100 TV channels, and as the company is creating the network transmission capacity for IPTV, it will be using ADSL 2 and ADSL 2+ technology.
“In order to launch the IPTV service commercially, it will take at least six months, as the company is in talks with the broadcasters and other issues have to be tied up,” company sources revealed.
Major telecom companies like Reliance Infocomm and VSNL are also planning to offer IPTV services. The union minister for communications and information technology, Dayanidhi Maran, recently said that the Government has asked MTNL and BSNL to ride on IPTV.
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