MTNL launches IPTV services

MTNL launches IPTV services

Government owned telecom company Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited has finally announced the commercial launch of its Internet Protocol Television service.

IPTV service provides television broadcasting service through telecom lines. The technology competes with cable television service providers along with CAS and DTH technologies.

MTNL (Delhi) Executive Director A. K. Arora spoke about their services: “Through the new technology, an MTNL subscriber can use telephone, surf the Internet and watch TV simultaneously through a single telephone line. There is no need to go for separate technologies for availing of these services. Just one MTNL phone connection provides all these facilities.”

The company had been testing their IPTV services in 200 homes across Delhi on a trial basis.

Arora added: “From today, all MTNL broadband subscribers will be able to register for India’s first IPTV service. To access pay channels that will come listed on screens, a subscriber just needs to select channels and start watching them, a system available only in IPTV. In future we will add more exciting features to the service.”

MTNL is charging Rs. 500 as registration fee for providing the IPTV service. For now, the service would cost Rs. 90 per month for 30 free-to-air channels and bouquet of Star and Zee networks. Users can pay another Rs. 30 to get Sony network channels.