Get ready for Triple Play
Triple what ?
Triple play is a term used by telecommunication people for a service that combines video, voice (VoIP) and high speed Internet in one pipe. So what's the big deal? We have all 3 already, right ? We have TMnet Streamyx or rather Screamyx for high speed access, Astro for video/TV services and Telekom Malaysia for voice. I pay RM88 a month for high speed Internet, RM100 for Astro and about RM50 to RM100 for phone calls. That makes 88+100+100 = RM288 a month.
How about having all 3 for RM150 or less? One flat rate, unlimited calls, downloads and 500 channels to choose from. One service provider, better still, one bill.
Telephone operators that used to offer ADSL to homes are now piping video over the same infrastructure. Reason ? They need another source of revenue because voice call revenues are falling under intense competition from people like REDtone or VoIP providers.
New technologies like ADSL2 and ADSL2+ can now go from 6 Mbps to 20Mbps, enough bandwidth for high quality video to be streamed to your home. MiTV is said be using IPTV technology for their service of 50 channels, though the launch date keeps changing. Timedotcom is doing their trials for netTV. If these people get their act right, you will be able to select which TV program you want to watch and when.
So no more fighting over which channels with you family members and you can watch it on your PC even! Pretty soon you can say goodbye to "service temporarily not availble" messages on your Astro screen when it rains. This thing is real and it is happening in the US and Western Europe.
Now there is a an even better trend - industry experts are thinking of combining 3G mobile networks with Triple Play and what do we get ?
Four Play.
Now that is REAL fun.
Triple play is a term used by telecommunication people for a service that combines video, voice (VoIP) and high speed Internet in one pipe. So what's the big deal? We have all 3 already, right ? We have TMnet Streamyx or rather Screamyx for high speed access, Astro for video/TV services and Telekom Malaysia for voice. I pay RM88 a month for high speed Internet, RM100 for Astro and about RM50 to RM100 for phone calls. That makes 88+100+100 = RM288 a month.
How about having all 3 for RM150 or less? One flat rate, unlimited calls, downloads and 500 channels to choose from. One service provider, better still, one bill.
Telephone operators that used to offer ADSL to homes are now piping video over the same infrastructure. Reason ? They need another source of revenue because voice call revenues are falling under intense competition from people like REDtone or VoIP providers.
New technologies like ADSL2 and ADSL2+ can now go from 6 Mbps to 20Mbps, enough bandwidth for high quality video to be streamed to your home. MiTV is said be using IPTV technology for their service of 50 channels, though the launch date keeps changing. Timedotcom is doing their trials for netTV. If these people get their act right, you will be able to select which TV program you want to watch and when.
So no more fighting over which channels with you family members and you can watch it on your PC even! Pretty soon you can say goodbye to "service temporarily not availble" messages on your Astro screen when it rains. This thing is real and it is happening in the US and Western Europe.
Now there is a an even better trend - industry experts are thinking of combining 3G mobile networks with Triple Play and what do we get ?
Four Play.
Now that is REAL fun.
posted by Orion | 2:26 PM
1 Comments:
Will wait until it's launch and see how it goes.If the deal is so good sure ppl will switch over to MiTV.
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