Satnews Daily
November 18th, 2009

Telstra Selects STB From Netgem For Australian IPTV Service (SatBroadcasting™)


Telstra homepage banner IPTV STB manufacturer and software developer, Netgem, has been selected by Telstra Corporation Limited to supply STB device and software for the T-Box™ service, which is Australia’s leading telecommunication and information Services company. T-Box brings Telstra’s content from its BigPond brand along with Australian terrestrial free-to-air (FTA) HD and SD television channels seamlessly together on a home television.

Capable of downloading movies from Telstra's BigPond Movies store and viewing Telstra's streaming Internet content, BigPond TV, T-Box customers will also have access to the terrestrial FTA digital television channels within their region. Telstra is initially conducting a customer experience trial of T-Box with a few hundred of its customers in the Australian city of Melbourne before launching the product across the nation.