| According to Casbaa chairman Marcel Fenez,
"This award represents a new benchmark for our industry. It recognizes
companies or individuals who have really made a difference. This year
the winner is a relatively new entrant to the market and has made
us all sit up and take notice with its innovative service and marketing
resulting in large subscriber take up. It's a wonderful start to what
will become a long-standing tradition for both our industry and the
Association."
PCCW, group chief financial officer Alex Arena, who accepted the
award on behalf of his company, said, "We are delighted to
receive the award. now Broadband TV is a world first Internet Protocol
TV platform -- the first television over IP to be offered commercially
anywhere in the world. That means DVD quality picture to the home
over our existing broadband network -- which reaches 98 percent
of Hong Kong."
"We put a lot of resources into this to ensure a reliable
and secure platform, and we're now reaping the rewards in terms
of our superb content line up. But we have only just started. In
fact November is going to be a busy month for us as we are about
to launch a major set of Cantonese programming," he added.
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