Services available in
Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh and Haiphong.
PARTICIPATING
COMPANIES
Nokia, VTC (Vietnam Multimedia
Corporation)
CONTACT
VTC Corporation
Address: 67B Hamlong Street, Hanoi city, Vietnam
SERVICE
LAUNCH DATE
21 December 2006
SUBSCRIBERS
/ USERS
No figures released.
BUSINESS
MODEL
PayTV, Pay-per-view
SERVICE
CONTENT
Nine digital TV channels
as well as a video-on-demand service from a catalogue of selected
titles offered by VTC. Also four radio services. There is one free-to-air
demo channel available.
TARIFFS
/ PRICING LEVELS
Monthly subscription
of US$ 5.00
TECHNICAL
INFORMATION
TRANSMITTERS
1 x 10KW in Hanoi city and 1 x 15 KW in Ho Chi Minh city. No
gap fillers are used.
Source reports "very good" outdoor coverage and "reasonably
good" indoor coverage.
BROADCAST
BAND AND FREQUENCY
Channel 21 & 49
DVB-H
PARAMETERS
FFT=8k; Modulation: hierachy
mode, 16 QAM none uniform , alpha =2 , HP use for DVB-H services
with QPSK; FEC=1/2; Guard Interval=1/8; MPE-FEC=3/4;
AMOUNT
OF BANDWIDTH USED FOR DVB-H
-
VIDEO
& AUDIO FORMAT
H.264/AAC+
Video is on average 324 Kbps
Audio is 40 Kbps
