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After like 3 years of the rumors about the launch of such a service, Airtel finally started to offer IPTV in two bundles.
Both comes with a landline connection (of course) and a 256kbps internet connection.
Its yet to be found out whether it is provided with other broadband packages.
Bharti Airtel’s new Internet Protocol Television has finally been launched in Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida. Airtel is using MPEG4-10 compression, and interestingly has a last mile delivery on copper, with ADSL2+.
Services
IPTV brings flexible viewing - called time shifting - to the living room, which allows users to pause and rewind live TV, and the ability to record TV channels. Apart from this, IPTV allows broadband related services, and commerce like booking movie tickets and ordering a pizza just by pushing a button on your TV remote. Bharti Airtel is also offering Video on Demand services, with around 100 movies available, which you can download anytime.
Like they did in case of the launch of DTH, Airtel is also pushing the concept of a unified bill with for voice, broadband and TV and video entertainment.
The Pricing
Bharti Airtel is offering two plans for the IPTV service. The triple play plan is called Magic@ Home Pack. For Rs. 999 a month, the pack offers 135 channels, a 256 kbps, unlimited download Internet connection as well as a landline. The other plan, called the Combo
Pack, costs Rs. 599 per month. It includes 117 channels and an Internet connection at 256 kbps with a download limit of 2.5 GB.
Awesome! Good Spring season for BroadBand Flourishing times of Internet in India!
