Commercial Rollout Of IPTV In India To Begin In December

The Hindu Business Line: India may see the launch of IPTV by end of the year. The US-based technology company, UT Starcom, has tied up with an Indian operator to offer the services, which will allow users to pause, fast forward and rewind live and recorded content stored on a remotely located server by the service provider.

Vijay Yadav, Managing Director, UT Starcom, said, “We are conducting the pilot for IPTV with one of the bigger Indian players and we are on schedule to roll out services commercially by December. UT Starcom is ideally positioned to help operators in leveraging the potential of the latest in technology.”

A number of operators including Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) and Reliance Infocom are planning to launch IPTV in a big way.

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