Bharti Airtel Telemedia Services, today announced the availability of its internet protocol television (IPTV) services.

Airtel's IPTV Headend, with latest 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.

The Airtel IPTV - Digital TVi Service comes with following two entry plans:

• 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

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.”

 

Currently the launch is restricted to Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida.