Telekom Austria Group Teams with Agama for Service Assurance and Monitoring of New B2B Satellite TV Platform 'direct2home'
(Thomson Reuters ONE) -
(LINKÖPING, November 12, 2013) - Agama Technologies, the video service quality
assurance expert, today announced that is has been selected as the strategic
partner for service quality assurance for Telekom Austria Group's new DTH
platform for satellite pay-TV. Telekom Austria Group's direct2home product is
targeted at broadcasting companies and telecommunication operators in Central
and Eastern Europe (CEE), a region in the process of digital switchover that
represents a market of approximately 75 million households.
At the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) in Amsterdam in September,
Telekom Austria Group announced its entry into the new business field of
satellite TV. With its new direct2home service, broadcasters can extend their
footprint and deliver their content to new markets and telecommunication
companies can enter the pay-TV business via Eutelsat's 16 degrees East orbital
position without investing heavily in infrastructure. To gain the operational
transparency needed to be in control of, and to work proactively with, the
service quality and customer satisfaction in this new platform, Telekom Austria
Group has reinforced its trust in Agama Technologies as its video service
quality assurance partner. The first telco to deploy the new platform, with
service quality assurance by Agama's DTV Monitoring Solution, is Telekom Austria
Group's Croatian subsidiary Vipnet, which offers direct2home services to its
existing cable TV customer base on the Croatian market.
Stefan Amon, Director Wholesale at Telekom Austria Group, says: "With our new
direct2home services we reach some 75 million households in the CEE region. By
partnering with the best system providers on the market we deliver a high
quality service portfolio to our potential B2B customers in the broadcast and
telecommunications industry. Agama without any doubt was choice number one as
partner for the quality assurance of the video signals."
Mikael Dahlgren, CEO at Agama Technologies, adds: "Opportunity enabling
offerings to the market, like this, are always exciting. As a long standing
partner, we are very proud to be selected by Telekom Austria Group to deliver
our solution and expertise to also support its new direct2home product with
best-in-class service quality assurance."
The Agama DTV Monitoring Solution is an industry-leading solution for continuous
and real-time monitoring and QA of the end-to-end video delivery chain. It
provides full transparency of the service distribution from pixel level in the
head-end to what is actually experienced by each individual viewer. Trusted by
TV operators worldwide, the solution supports business processes with actionable
insights that help to proactively manage service quality and customer
satisfaction, whilst lowering OPEX and improving customer retention. Ultimately,
this empowers TV businesses with accelerated service growth and profitability,
as well as with strengthened customer loyalty.
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Media contacts:
Emelie Wennberg
Director of Marketing & PR
Agama Technologies
emelie.wennberg(at)agama.tv
+46 13 240 330
Alexander Kleedorfer
Head of External Communications
Telekom Austria Group
alexander.kleedorfer(at)telekomaustria.com
+43 664 6639183
About Telekom Austria Group (www.telekomaustria.com /
wholesale.telekomaustria.com)
About Telekom Austria Group Wholesale: The Telekom Austria Group is Austria's
leading provider of telecommunication services. It is an integrated, convergent
provider of intelligent information and communications services and a leader in
CEE. The portfolio covers voice, data, IP services, global satellite
communications and mobile solutions. The Group also provides longtime expert
know-how, flexible and tailor-made solutions and prompt troubleshooting for
Roaming, Signaling Solutions, GRX/IPX Service and Fraud Detection. More
information at http://wholesale.telekomaustria.com.
About Telekom Austria Group: Telekom Austria Group, listed on the Vienna Stock
Exchange since November 2000, is the leading communications provider in Central
and Eastern Europe with more than 24 million customers across its markets of
operations. The Group is currently operating in eight countries: Austria (A1),
Slovenia (Si.mobil), Croatia (Vipnet), the Republic of Serbia (Vip mobile) and
the Republic of Macedonia (Vip operator), Bulgaria (Mobiltel), Belarus (velcom)
and Liechtenstein (mobilkom liechtenstein). The total market of the eight
countries covers approximately 41 million inhabitants. The Group has roughly
16,450 employees, Group revenues were EUR 4.33 billion as of year-end 2012.
Telekom Austria Group's portfolio encompasses products and services of voice
telephony, broadband Internet, multimedia services, data and IT solutions,
wholesale as well as m-payment solutions. For further information please go to
http://www.telekomaustria.com or follow us on Twitter
http://twitter.com/TA_Group.
About Agama Technologies
Agama Technologies provides next-generation quality assurance and monitoring
solutions for digital TV and video services. As the first company to provide
complete and proven end-to-end, multi-metric monitoring solutions, Agama
continues to pioneer and innovate. TV operators and service providers worldwide
rely on the established Agama DTV Monitoring Solution for systematic
improvements of service quality and customer satisfaction, whilst lowering
operational costs and reducing churn. Agama Technologies AB is based in
Linköping, Sweden, and is privately held. For more information, visit
www.agama.tv.
Mikael Dahlgren, CEO at Agama Technologies (JPG):
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Full press release (PDF):
http://hugin.info/138960/R/1742112/585525.pdf
Agama logo (.zip):
http://www.agama.tv/downloads/agama_logo_blue.zip
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