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  • Pacific Century Matrix looking to penetrate Indian market

    Pacific Century Matrix looking to penetrate Indian market

    Hong Kong-based satellite broadband service provider Pacific Century Matrix (PCM) is looking at forging alliances through one or more partners to offer its product in the country.

    At the Workshop on DVB and Internet Protocol which took place in Delhi, PCM’s India head Sandeep Bhargava told indiantelevision.com today that it was looking at increasing its customer-base in India.

    Bhargava disclosed that the current list of customers of the company includes Internet Service Providers and even some broadcasters. He however added: “But I cannot tell you the names now as it is a competitive business and we are in the process of establishing a full-fledged operation in India.”

    Senior V-P business development of PCM Patrick Yeung said that it would be more advantageous for the company to develop business relationships in markets like India rather than operate out of the headquarters based in Hong Kong. 

    PCM’s suite of innovative satellite solutions is designed to meet the most demanding of communications requirements. With access to over 110 million connected households, PCM claims to provide direct access into the homes of some 400 million viewers and users.

    The video broadcasting services include:
    1. Turnaround of foreign TV programmes from international regions to Asia pacific in analog and digital format.
    2. Broadcasting on satellites to high-demand neighbourhoods.
    3. One-off services as well as occasional use for special events and satellite news gathering.

    The company founded in 1999, is a joint venture between Richard Li-promoted Pacific Century Group and European Aeronautics Defence & Space Company (EADS). The joint venture is a facility-based telecommunications services operator offering DVB/IP broadcasting services for TV broadcasters, a range of one-way and interactive broadband data delivery and network management end-to-end solutions for multimedia business, content and service providers.

  • Workshop on DVB and Internet Protocol draws healthy response

    Workshop on DVB and Internet Protocol draws healthy response

    Over 150 attendees from 67 organisations, including government, institutions, international corporations, Internet Service Providers and broadcasters attended the Delhi workshop on Digital Video Broadcasting and Internet Protocol.

    Dishnet DSL, a leading ISP and the first ISP in India to offer the DSL, broadband access, sponsored the workshop as an existing customer of PCM, along with other co-sponsors. Indiantelevision.com (this site) was the on-line partner for the event

    Speaking at the inaugural function, director engineering of Prasar Bharati Y Pratap highlighted the advantages of DVB and IP via satellite for broadcasters and telecommunications player. He said: “As IP via satellite can offer more bandwidth, the service offered can be many and the quality will also be of good quality”.

    During the same function, senior V-P sales and marketing of Pacific Century Matrix Loo Tong Mun said that the company intends to offer a global network that serves as a single resource for customers’ worldwide requirements. According to Mun, there has been exponential growth in traffic over Internet and PCM, while exploiting the opportunities, will develop beyond Internet access to a caching and multicasting and content distribution facilitator.

    Focussing on the advantages of satellite for IP, Mun said that it makes the whole process “distance insensitive” while being reliable and scalable mechanism for delivery.

    Other speakers during the inaugural function included RRN Prasad of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, Amitabh Singhal, secretary of Internet Service Providers’ Association of India and Guru Hariharan of Call Centers Association of India.