Thursday, October 16, 2008

Bharti Airtel partners with Infosys to deliver next-gen interactivity on its DTH service

Bharti Airtel, India leading integrated telecom services provider has entered into an innovation and technology partnership with Infosys Technologies to deliver superior customer experience to the customers of Airtel digital TV, its Direct (DTH) TV service. As part of its Digital Convergence Platform, Infosys will provide a suite of products including devices, application servers and interactive applications that will focus on providing an enhanced digital lifestyle to Airtel digital IV customers.

Airtels revolutionary digital TV technology in combination with Infosys' digital convergence platform will bring digital lifestyle applications offering interactivity and personalization into the living room. This will include interactive and non-intrusive applications like widgets that can be invoked by the user to view relevant and customized information. For the first time in the country, TV-viewers will now be able to access local city information through interactive applications such as iCity, enjoy hassle-free Internet- like experience on their televisions with iNet, and get live and personalized stock quotes, breaking news, horoscopes, cricket scores and shopping deals in the city without. interrupting their TV-viewing experience. With this path breaking offering, Airtel digital TV customers will also have select websites packaged suitably for TV-viewing, in an application called tPortal. In addition, a host of other innovative applications are slated for release over a period of time.

The company made this announcement during the trading hours today, 15 October 2008.

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