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efurbishment of a prestigious resort in Kuwait.
Khiran Resort, located 120km from Kuwait
City, will deploy Occam’s GPON solution for a
phased renovation of the resort’s chalets.
MALAYSIA
TELEKOM MALAYSIA SELECTS PIXEL
POWER FOR IPTV ROLLOUT
Telekom Malaysia has selected branding and
master control technology from Pixel Power for
its rollout of IPTV services over the country’s
new High Speed Broadband (HSBB) network,
which commenced last March. Pixel Power is
reported to have been contracted to supply three
BrandMasters, which combine master control and
graphics technology, and four LogoVision devices,
which are dedicated to branding and playout. The
technology is being installed in a new play out
centre in Cyberjaya, south of Kuala Lumpur.
ASTRO LAUNCHES IPTV TRIALS
Astro is trialling an IPTV service in the township
of Mont Kiara, using Time dotCom’s fibre-based
high-speed network, according to “TheStar”.
The company has reportedly been trialling IPTV
since July with around 100 users, and is believed
to be hoping to counter the launch by Telekom
Malaysia of its own IPTV service earlier this year,
delivered over the country’s new High Speed
Broadband Network. Trial users are able to
watch all of Astro’s programmes in HD quality.
QATAR
QTEL PROVIDES FREE HD
CHANNELS ON IPTV
Qtel is running a pilot project under which it will
make HD channels available for free on its IPTV
service Mozaic TV+ at Lagoon Plaza Towers in
West Bay Doha. The HD channels will be delivered
over the fibre-based network and the first to be
offered will be Al Kass Sports HD, Luxe HD,
Dream HD, and Dubai Sports HD. These will be
joined shortly afterwards by a range of additional
HD channels, including AD Sports 3 HD to AD
Sports 8 HD available with the AD Sports Barclays
Premier League subscription. The new HD channels
will be available for free until the end of 2010.
SINGAPORE
SINGAPORE RECOMMENDS
OPEN IPTV STANDARDS
Singapore’s Project NIMS (Next Generation
Interactive Multimedia, Applications and Services)
have recommended that the open IPTV standards
developed by the DVB consortium be used for
the fulfilment of its common featured set-top box
functional requirements. The recommendation
is attributed to the DVB IPTV standards’ support
of automatic connection to and configuration
of a set-top box connected to an IP network
for necessary service discovery and selection,
as well as their ability to provide secure content
protection and a middleware environment
for the provision of a rich interactive service.
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
DU TV TO OFFER MBC ON DEMAND
du has signed an agreement with MBC, under
which a selection of the broadcaster’s content
will be added to the on-demand library of the
operator’s IPTV services du TV and du TV+.
The agreement was facilitated by On Demand
Group, which was contracted by du to fully
manage its VOD offering, with hundreds of
hours of content covered by the agreement.
A U S T R A L I A & O C E A N I A
AUSTRALIA
FOXTEL LAUNCHES IPTV SERVICE
Foxtel has announced its first IPTV service via the
iQ2, which enables customers to download TV
and movies through the box’s Ethernet connection.
The new service supplements the existing
Foxtel iQ2 On Demand service and now offers
hundreds of extra movies and up to a thousand TV
shows. TV shows are available for AU$2.95 each
downloaded movies are now available in a separate
Movie Library On Demand for AU$3.95 each.
TELSTRA TRIALS WIDEVINE
IPTV TECHNOLOGY
Telstra recently started trialling Widevine’s IPTV
technology which when fully implemented will allow
Telstra to deliver Full HD moves and 3D content as
part of their BigPond Movie offering. The Widevine
technology allows consumers to access live, HD
entertainment over the Internet. The premium
broadcast content can be viewed over both IPTV
enabled TV’s PC’s and Tablets and mobile devices.
ADAM INTERNET OFFERS FETCHTV
Adam Internet has become the ISP to offer the
IPTV service FetchTV to its subscribers. The
ISP has initiated trials with selected customers,
who will be able to receive on-demand movies
and TV shows, as well as linear subscription
channels and all available free-to-air channels,
with the service costing less than AUD 30 (US$
29) per month. Adam Internet has become the
third Australian ISP to partner with FetchTV,
following in the steps of iiNet and Internode.
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