ROSTELECOM INKS DISNEY DEAL, EYES ARMENIA
Broadband TV News
Jan 13 2012
The Russian telco Rostelecom has signed a licensing agreement with
Disney under which it will be able to offer the latter~Rs content ~V
both in SD and HD ~V to its IPTV subscribers on an on demand basis.
Although Rostelecom currently operates IPTV platforms, with a total
of over 500,000 subscribers, under various names including Avangard TV
(North West Federal District), U-Tel (Ural Federal District) and Disel
TV (South and North Caucasus Federal District), they are expected to
be brought under a single brand name sometime this year.
In a separate development, it has been reported that Romtelecom
plans to enter the market in Armenia through the acquisition of a 75%
minus one share in the operator GNC-Alfa.
It is also understood to be targeting the ISP Ucom.
According to Kommersant, the two Armenian companies together account
for at least 13% of the country~Rs broadband market.
From: Baghdasarian
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