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Airtel Launches IPTV Service

19 Jan, 2009, 6:27 pm IST | tech2 News Staff | Windows

Bharti Airtel has announced the debut of its Triple Play Service with the launch of Airtel digital TV interactive – it's Internet Protocol Television Service. With this, Airtel delivers the Triple Play Advantage of Telephony, broadband and Entertainment Service to its customers. The Triple Play Service will be initially available to customers in Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida starting today.


Atul Bindal, President-Telemedia Services, Bharti Airtel, said, "Today, with the launch of Airtel digital TV interactive, we begin offering the Triple Play Advantage offer to our customers – leading in with voice, then broadband and now television and video on demand. We offer our customers a Single Knock on The Door experience - a uniform Airtel Quality of Experience with a single Customer Service interface and a single unified bill for voice, broadband and TV and video entertainment."

Airtel's IPTV Headend, with best-in-class MPEG4-10 compression technology, will allow it to offer more content and better quality images as well as services like live broadcast television, network based time-shifted TV, real video-on-demand and a host of other interactive services. Airtel will deliver its IPTV service to customers through a fibre backbone of Carrier Ethernet Network with last mile delivery on copper using ADSL2+ technology. This latest technology enables high-speed broadband connectivity which in turn delivers superior digital video and audio quality.

Customers can gain access to the future of TV entertainment on Airtel digital TV interactive by choosing from 2 entry packs –

- Magic@ Home Pack - Triple Play Plan - at Rs. 999 per month which gives 135 channels including 256 kbps broadband speed with unlimited download and a landline connection

- Combo Pack – IPTV and Broadband Plan – at Rs. 599 per month which gives 117 channels including 256 kbps broadband speed with download limit of 2.5 GB

The service will be backed by 24x7 customer care.

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