Quebec firm vies for triple play service in Slovakia

A Quebec-based company is hoping to expand its international reach into Slovakia, offering consumers in that country telephone, television and internet services over a digital video broadcast terrestrial (DVBT) network. Valtech Communications, a subsidiary of Hipso Multimedia, Inc., Ile des Soeurs QC, announced late last month that it had teamed up with two Slovak partners (AZD and ZSR) in response to a network technology tender from the Slovak Telecom Office. AZD will supply the manpower to install the equipment for the telecom network. ZSR is the Slovak national railroad company which owns an extensive fiber optic network along its rail beds. Other partners include Ericsson Telephone Company and Harris Corporation. The winning vendor will be responsible for the installation of the national network and will receive an exclusive, renewable 20-year operating licence which requires that at least 90% of the 1.7 million Sovak households be covered by Dec. 31, 2012. Hipso aims to tap into the growing demand for services delivered via IPTV and DVBT. According to Gartner Inc., the number of households around the world subscribing to IPTV services offered by telecom carriers will reach 48.8 million in 2010. More than 60 countries have announced their conversion to DVB-T national networks, which is the DVB European-based consortium standard for the broadcast transmission of digital terrestrial television (without satellite). This system transmits compressed digital audio, video and other data in a free to air mode (directly to the television without charge) to all television sets in a given country.

Quebec firm vies for triple play service in Slovakia

Brief | August 4, 2009

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