China Telecom, SMG launch IPTV service
(Shenzhen Daily/Agencies)
Updated: 2006-09-04 10:34
The country's largest fixed-line company, China Telecom Corp, and Shanghai
Media Group (SMG) launched a joint Internet TV service Friday, as companies in
China's maturing telecom market forage into Web-based areas.
BesTV, the Internet Protocol Television service - TV sent over telecom
networks using Internet protocol - may reach 80,000 to 100,000 households
by the end of 2006, BesTV chief operating officer Li Huaiyu said on the
sidelines of the launch.
Shanghai Media Group is the first company in China to receive a license from
the Central Government to run IPTV.
With growth slowing in China's telecom market, the world's biggest with 360
million fixed-line and 430 million mobile users, China Telecom and rival China
Netcom Group Corp. are looking to newer, non-voice services.
Both companies have spent large sums upgrading their networks for the
deployment of high-speed data services, including broadband Internet and
IPTV.
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