Monday, June 26, 2006


BSNL Broadband to roll out cable TV


As Star & Tata Joint Venture Tata Sky gear's up to take on the sattelite cable tv market, with Dish-tv, a Zee Television group venture already in the market, now BSNL is gonna get going in this space too, would it be just DD channel's packaged for some unrealistic pricing ?, never know as BSNL is not gonna provide any satellite receivers to users, it would be through broadband, and it's gonna be aunched first in PUNE

It has tied up with a firm called Maharashtra Knowledge Corporation Ltd (MKCL), this company would help BSNL delivering the Cable TV content via their ADSL Broadband technology.

All that the consumer would require is a set top box, a landline and a television set that would also function as the monitor. they claim they are going to offer a good package of popular channel's, they have a broadband consumer base of around 27,000 customers in pune.They have scheduled a Independence day launch for the service.


Pune will become the first city in the country when the BSNL will launch multi player services through broadband connection on August 15. Here are some of the features that are on offer:
* Bouquet of cable channels
* Video on demand
* Video conferencing
* TV-to-TV SMS
* E-classes

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