Telecom Lead India: ZTE has signed a four-year IPTV network construction deal with Telkom Indonesia.
The Chinese ICT solutions and products company will construct, operate, and maintain a low-bit-rate IPTV network for Telkom from 2013 to 2016.
Telkom, the largest fixed-line operator in Indonesia with 95 per cent market share, will benefit as ZTE will supply IPTV system equipment including high definition, standard definition and low bit rate devices, as well as STB. On the systems side, ZTE will operate, maintain, and host equipment, and provide end-to-end network optimization.
Telkom, the holding company of Telkomsel, the largest mobile operator in Indonesia, says ZTE’s IPTV construction model helps guarantee and develop IPTV multi-screen business at low bandwidth.
“Our cooperation with Telkom Indonesia in IPTV provides valuable experiences for developing video businesses in a complicated network environment,” said ZTE Multimedia and VAS Product Line General Manager Fang Hui.
ZTE is expanding in the global IPTV market in Asia, the United States, and Europe. As of the end of Q4 2012, ZTE had deployed 49 IPTV commercial offices, and had 12 million subscribers and capacity of over 20 million.
In 2012, Telkom Indonesia’s net profits climbed 17 percent year-on-year to IDR 12.85 trillion ($1.3 billion) from IDR 10.96 trillion in FY 2011, fuelled by revenue growth and efficiency savings. The carrier’s revenues rose 8.3 percent to IDR 77.14 trillion last year from IDR 71.25 trillion a year earlier, as operational costs increased 2.6 percent from IDR 16.37 trillion to IDR 16.80 trillion.
According to Multimedia Research Group, ZTE’s IPTV middleware had 11 percent of global market share, second in the world.
