One of the most talked and awaited feature that were creating lots of rumors around the air about launch of Internet Protocol based Telephony (IPTV) services by Airtel has finally come true! Airtel have announced the launch of Internet Protocol based telephones a few days ago. As per the officials of Bharti Airtel, initially the service has been launched in the capital city of India – New Delhi and phase wise they will be rolling out this service to many other towns and city of the country.
Technically this service is called Triple Play which will be providing 3-in-1 facility of Internet, Television & Telephony services on a single cable line. Presently, this service comes with 2 exciting plans.
While talking about the services, one of the official says:
Airtel’s IPTV Headed, with best-in-class 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.
With the launch of such 3-in-1 services we will have to wait and watch about the future of DTH services in India.
(Via Tech2)