Digitalpaket mit 120 kanälen in portugal 2008

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PORTUGAL: Portugal Telecom plant Satellitenpaket
Der Telekommunikationskonzern Portugal Telecom will ein Pay-TV-Digitalpaket für Satelliten-Direktempfänger starten. In der Branche wird erwartet, dass es sich dabei um eine Variante des IPTV-Pakets

 

AW: Digitalpaket mit 120 kanälen in portugal 2008

Provision of satellite television in the plans of PT


Portugal Telecom may be next to launch a new offer to the consumer market. The plans of the group point to the provision of satellite television, with 120 channels, supported a form of payment for subscription. The news is advanced by the Daily News, which cites sources to ensure that the new offering will be launched in March next year.

At the DN found, this service will compete with digital terrestrial television, where the PT also may be and will ultimately affect the operations of Cable TV, which currently owns more than 80 percent of the market share of cable television .

The possibility of launching the satellite service so it is a massive project that is not discarded by the company but, for now, is early to draw plans accordingly. At the table are the intentions of the PT in DTT, whose tender will happen in the first half of 2008. Here, the operator gave some renitências meet the obligations specified in the document of the public consultation of DTT, including the need to cover the 99 per cent of the national territory, the requirement for full coverage indoor throughout the country and the possibility of operator winner having to offer a box of receipt of the signal to customers.

In both cases, whether in satellite TV or in DTT, the objective is to supplement the offer of tripleplay's current company, the Meo, who, for now, can not be distributed in bulk data technical requirements required by the service-minimum speeds , 8 MB.

Examples are the discrepancies existing in the number of subscribers of the two-TV services of PT, as the Meo aims to reach 30 thousand at the end of this year while the Cable TV account with 1.5 million customers.