wordpress blog stats
Connect with us

Hi, what are you looking for?

, , ,

BSNL’s Partner MyWay Reportedly Closing Down Its IPTV Service

One of BSNL's IPTV partners, MyWay is shutting down its operations in India following poor subscriber uptake, according to The Hindu. The report mentions that the company representatives have now started collecting back all the Set Top Boxes issued to customers in Chennai, although an official communication about the discontinuation hasn't been conveyed to MyWay's subscribers yet. A MyWay spokesman informed the publication that the group's Indian operations were being discontinued since they had turned highly unviable. Although BSNL had claimed 3,000 subscribers in the state, MyWay had put it at 500, as per the report. MyWay, a digital entertainment enterprise owned by Smart TV Group, had launched its IPTV operations in October 2009. It had entered into long-term contracts with MTNL and BSNL to provide co-branded interactive video services in India and claims to offer its services in 54 cities, accounting for 50% of the urban population. This announcement comes hardly as a surprise since the IPTV scene seems to be in a pretty bad shape in the country. Aksh Optifibre, a BSNL and MTNL IPTV franchise, had earlier reported a decline in its revenue and was eyeing Dubai. MTNL had around 5910 IPTV connections as of February 2011, and Airtel had informed that it is going considerably slower on its IPTV service as compared to its DTH service. We wonder if we'll see more vendors shutting down their IPTV operations in the coming year.  

Please subscribe/login to read the full story.
Written By

Free Reads

News

With GPS in every car, India's toll collection is going high-tech.

News

Google is currently undergoing the necessary procedures for the leasehold land, which is presently under the ownership of the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation.

News

The pilot project for which is being launched in 19 cities this year, with a plan to launch a full-fledged rollout next year.

MediaNama’s mission is to help build a digital ecosystem which is open, fair, global and competitive.

Views

News

NPCI CEO Dilip Asbe recently said that what is not written in regulations is a no-go for fintech entities. But following this advice could...

News

Notably, Indus Appstore will allow app developers to use third-party billing systems for in-app billing without having to pay any commission to Indus, a...

News

The existing commission-based model, which companies like Uber and Ola have used for a long time and still stick to, has received criticism from...

News

Factors like Indus not charging developers any commission for in-app payments and antitrust orders issued by India's competition regulator against Google could contribute to...

News

Is open-sourcing of AI, and the use cases that come with it, a good starting point to discuss the responsibility and liability of AI?...

You May Also Like

News

Google has released a Google Travel Trends Report which states that branded budget hotel search queries grew 179% year over year (YOY) in India, in...

Advert

135 job openings in over 60 companies are listed at our free Digital and Mobile Job Board: If you’re looking for a job, or...

News

By Aroon Deep and Aditya Chunduru You’re reading it here first: Twitter has complied with government requests to censor 52 tweets that mostly criticised...

News

Rajesh Kumar* doesn’t have many enemies in life. But, Uber, for which he drives a cab everyday, is starting to look like one, he...

MediaNama is the premier source of information and analysis on Technology Policy in India. More about MediaNama, and contact information, here.

© 2008-2021 Mixed Bag Media Pvt. Ltd. Developed By PixelVJ

Subscribe to our daily newsletter
Name:*
Your email address:*
*
Please enter all required fields Click to hide
Correct invalid entries Click to hide

© 2008-2021 Mixed Bag Media Pvt. Ltd. Developed By PixelVJ