Sri Lanka Telecom selects UTStarcom's RollingStream platform
June 19, 2008 - Sri Lanka Telecom has selected UTStarcom's RollingStream end-to-end IPTV platform for the deployment of IP video services in the country.
Sri Lanka Telecom's IPTV deployment is designed to support approximately 100,000 subscribers in the next two years. The telco has a market share of 87% in the country and a wireline subscriber base of over 1.3mn customers.
"UTStarcom's market position is unique in that it primarily offers 'end-to-end' IPTV solutions," commented Gary Schultz, President of Multimedia Research Group (MRG). "In terms of the total number of actual IPTV sub-sectors - and subscribers - served, UTStarcom is the leading end-to-end supplier in the Asian IPTV market. IPTV, as an application-enabler, continues to open up new opportunities for revenue generation for service providers. MRG forecasts global IPTV network capital expenditure (CAPEX) to grow at a 16 percent Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) over the next few years, as service providers provision differentiated service offerings to further their competitive edge."
UTStarcom's RollingStream end-to-end IPTV platform currently supports more than 850,000 live IPTV subscribers worldwide, and has recently been deployed by China Netcom and China Telecom in China, Bharti Airtel, MTNL/Aksh and UTL in India, Softbank in Japan, Brasil Telecom in Latin America, and Markwell in Taiwan.
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