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Thomas K Thomas

A consumer possessing a broadband connection and a television will be ready for the IPTV revolution.

New Delhi , Nov. 21

COME December Indian consumers will get the latest in broadband technology, IPTV (Internet protocol Television) which enables you to watch content of your choice using your telephone line.

The US-based technology company, UT Starcom, has tied up with an Indian operator to offer the services, which will allow users to pause, fast forward and rewind live and recorded content stored on a remotely located server by the service provider.

Mr Vijay Yadav, Managing Director, UT Starcom, said, "We are conducting the pilot for IPTV with one of the bigger Indian players and we are on schedule to roll out services commercially by December. UT Starcom is ideally positioned to help operators in leveraging the potential of the latest in technology."

A number of operators including Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) and Reliance Infocom are planning to launch IPTV in a big way.

A consumer possessing a broadband connection and a television will be ready for the IPTV revolution. The set top boxes will be available upon rollout of the technology in the consumers' area. IPTV uses a two-way digital broadcast signal (sent through a switched telephone or cable network by way of a broadband connection and a set-top box programmed with software much like a cable or DSS box) that can handle viewer requests to access many available media sources.

The viewer's TV connects to a set top box that decodes the IP video and converts it into standard television signals. IPTV allows operators to deliver content to their subscribers using telephone lines through IP technology. So far, this technology was used to deliver voice through Internet telephony. The services on IPTV include video-on-demand and digital video recording.

TV over telephone line is slated to be the next big application for telecom service providers. Even mobile operators are looking at technologies like the FLO to broadcast live TV on cellular phones. It is predicted that by 2008, 20 million homes worldwide will subscribe to IPTV services.

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