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The WATBlog Panel was initiated by a keynote by Bruno Goveas, Head Marketing & Product Management (India), Akamai the sponsors of the WATBlog Panel. He initiated the panel outlining in his keynote that Media explosion over Internet was the future of the next decade.
The panel started immediately with panelists Ashish Gupta - Helion Ventures, Sateesh [...]

UTStarcom, announced a contract with Aksh Optifibre, to deploy UTStarcom’s end-to-end RollingStream® Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) solution in 20 cities on Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited’s ADSL 2+ network, a UTStarcom-built multi-play infrastructure that currently supports more than 75 percent of the active wired lines in India. UTStarcom is known to sell its IP-based, ene-to-end networking solutions to operators in both emerging and established telecommunication markets around the world.

A report by the television rating agency TAM says that the viewers of digital TV spend more time watching Television than those having analogue TV. Digital TV includes DTH and the Conditional Access System (CAS).
TAM data shows that digital TV watchers also watch more number of channels compared to the analogue TV audience. 186 minutes, [...]

The government has now given its nod to make necessary changes to the current downlinking guidelines for television channels. This has now eased off the commercial rollout of IPTV services in the country.

Presently, MTNL, the state-owned entity having presence in Mumbai and Delhi are already providing their IPTV services with a bunch of Free-To-Air channels. [...]

 This is a Guest Post by Raghav Soni - one of our regular readers.
 
News Based Sources tells us that the government is likely to announce its policies on two advanced technologies i.e IPTV and HITS by next week.
 
The government had earlier proposed a Convergence law to address issues related to overlapping of Telecom and Broadcasting [...]

We had recently blogged about the intentions of TutorVista to launch offline tutoring chains in India. While that might have huge potential what could possibly kill the offline market for tutoring could be education and tutoring through IPTV or so thinks Digital Media Convergence Ltd CEO Ishwar Jha who said “With tuition fees stretching the [...]

The speed to technology deployment is picking up day by day. Not long ago, we were hypothesizing about the possibility of Mobile TV implementation in India. And today, the news came that MTNL has launched Mobile TV in Delhi already.
 
The launch will see the subscribers viewing seven channels on their GPRS enabled handsets. The handsets [...]

Have a look at the statistic below – try and find where India figures on this list that ranks countries on the basis of Average Broadband Speed.

Surprised? A supposed hub of International technology development does not even figure on this list. Until August 2005, India did not even have a route server. It thus  took [...]

The Internet is growing at a rapid pace. Indian technology companies are on the verge of capturing the global internet devices market. Ichip Technologies, a Hyderabad based technology company, has developed an internet device ‘@box’ for entertainment, education and communication purposes by making an investment of Rs. 10 Crore which they plan to install in [...]

“In a move that could lead to costlier internet services, telecom regulator Trai on Thursday recommended that all internet service providers (ISPs) pay 6% of revenues as licence fee, have a uniform foreign holding of 74% like other telecom services and proposed that new entrants be charged an entry fee of Rs 20 lakh for [...]

British Telecom plans to launch an internet TV service aimed at the UK’s Indian community that will allow viewers to watch Bollywood films without having to wait for their release in the country.
British Telecom believes that the Indian community in Britain is poorly served for entertainment. UK cinemas rarely show Bollywood films, whereas in [...]

Business standard: BSNL has commenced testing of its Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) service in Pune and soon bring IPTV to other metros and rural areas. BSNL has tied up with the Maharashtra Knowledge Corporation Ltd (MKCL), a state government company, for integration of information technology in education and DiviNet, an infrastructure and technology provider BSNL [...]

The TV is coming to the internet and how can Indians be far behind? A US-based company India Broadcast Live, a global entertainment and media company, has unveiled People of Indian Origin (Pio) TV, a television channel meant for who else people of indian origin that are Abroad i.e. NRI’s. The channel will be available through [...]

Internet is growing in India like never before and technology seems to giving it the boost that it requires. Well for starters MTNL (Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd.) has said that they would soon start offering Internet Protocol TV services (IPTV) under the TriBand name. The company is planning to start testing this new technology in [...]