Bharti Airtel reveals will launch IPTV service in next two months

October 18, 2007 – Indian telco Bharti Airtel announced yesterday that it will launch its IPTV service in Delhi and NCR in the next two months.

Puneet Garg, Bharti Airtel’s General Manager for IPTV, told agencies: “We are waiting for regulatory approvals… as soon as we get the approvals, we will roll out our IPTV services in the next two months….  After receiving feedback from these two cities, we would launch the service across the country.”

The executive added that Bharti Airtel conducted trials for IPTV last year and is now ready to launch the service commercially, and has already tied-up with content providers.  Although Garg declined to reveal the investment figures for the IPTV project, he said that “all the infrastructure and investment for launching the service has been made.”

State-run Indian telcos BSNL and MTNL have already launched their own IPTV services in certain cities in the country such as Delhi, Mumbai and Pune, and smaller telco Reliance is also planning to do so.