Adc Did It Happen ?

ADC aims for 'triple play' of video, phone and broadband Internet

TONY WALTHAM

Hannover, Germany _ A new high-speed DSL broadband service is being launched in Bangkok and the major provinces next week by Advanced Datanetwork Communications (ADC) that will also provide video on demand services with over 1,000 hours of content, games and free TV channels.

This was posted , what looks like a year ago, copied from the Bangkok post. Anybody know if anything happened with this service ??

ADC, a member of the Shin Group, will provide 2Mbps of unlimited broadband within the country and a 1Mbps international link for just 650 baht a month, including the free television, according to managing director Aphivan Ratnin Saipradist.

The equipment for this home entertainment network is provided by Siemens, after ADC signed a turnkey contract with the company to initially provide 200,000 broadband lines over a three-year period. The end-user equipment includes a Siemens set-top box, DSL modem and splitter.

ADC will introduce the service on March 24 in what Ms Aphivan calls a "triple play" by providing existing telephone connectivity, broadband Internet access from a PC and local television channels or video on demand at the same time.

Ms Aphivan said that ADC's investment over two years would be some 500 million baht and that its role was that of an integrator, with the Internet service provision being under CS Loxinfo's licence.

This service will be available to residents of Bangkok and 24 major provinces in all parts of the country who have Telephone Organisation of Thailand lines and ADC expects to sign up between 60,000 and 80,000 subscribers in the first year.