(3 March 2007 6:00 pm)

MUMBAI: IPTV service platform IOL Broadband has announced that it is set to offer the three main channel bouquets available in India - Star, Set-Discovery OneAlliance and Zee Turner - totaling to over 60 Premium Pay IPTV channels along with 90 free-to-air channels.

The announcement comes ahead of IOL's "imminent" commercial deployment of IPTV in the country.

This represents a watershed event in that a credible option to CAS & DTH has now become available for the first time in India, the company asserts.

Company director AS Oberai said that with the introduction of commercial services by IOL IPTV on fibre and ADSL networks; India has joined an elite club of developed countries like Japan and Korea where IPTV has been recently introduced.

IOL is deploying IPTV all over the country after integrating proven technology providers, a company release states.