UTStarcom announced that it has been awarded a contract from Hainan Network Television to build an integrated IPTV broadcasting control platform.
Hainan is the second among 42 recently designated trial markets to award an IPTV solutions contract to UTStarcom, the firm said.The new broadcasting control platform will support the content management and distribution needs of IPTV, Internet TV and mobile TV.
“This new platform will cover all of Hainan province and provide approximately 100,000 household subscribers with digital, high-definition, and bi-directional IPTV. It will also enable HNWTV to centrally manage their television content distribution, storage, advertising posting, and subscriber data information,” UTStarcom president and CEO Jack Lu, said in a report.
Since 2010, UTStarcom has won and built nine additional IPTV broadcast control platforms across China, specifically in Beijing, Hubei, Hunan, Shandong, Shenzhen, Sichuan, Tianjin, Zhejiang, and Chongqing.