MSA Focus continues to increase its presence in the Asia-Pacific region, with yet another major deal to provide its world leading broadcast management solution; ForeTV.
SingTel, Asia’s leading communications & ICT group, will use MSA Focus’ ForeTV to underpin the provision of its 24-hour Pay TV offering SingTel mio TV; delivering over 100 Channels of major Sport, News, Entertainment and International content across their IPTV network in 11 languages, to over 400,000 subscribers via both linear and on-demand services.
ForeTV will provide more advanced asset management, scheduling, EPG, ad-sales and post-tx functions along with a more flexible and scalable SVOD & TVOD service and catalogue management solution via ForeTV’s rich, next- generation non-linear module.
“MSA Focus is extremely proud to be entrusted by SingTel to partner with them in the evolution of their broadcast services” said Phua Lik Chin, Head of the MSA Focus Asian Office in KL, “In the constantly changing world of broadcast media, SingTel were looking for a comprehensive broadcast management system to help advance their IPTV services. I believe MSA Focus’ experience with this kind of implementation and ForeTV’s proven track record providing rich system functionality along with the provision of direct regional support from our Malaysian office, enabling fast turnaround for set-up and development, were key to our selection.”
He continued “Broadcasters in this part of the world understand that truly efficient and flexible broadcast management is the key to commercially effective service provision, and recognise that ForeTV provides precisely that efficiency and flexibility. This positions SingTel well for future expansion, with ForeTV’s comprehensive feature set giving them the opportunity and ability to maximise their presence and compete at the forefront of new technology in the broadcasting marketplace”
Built on the Microsoft® .NET® framework and using industry standard Windows® native technologies, ForeTV provides an end-to-end, enterprise-wide, integrated broadcast management solution, dealing with all aspects of the transmission timeline; from media, rights and asset management, acquisitions, scheduling, ad-sales and playlist generation to inventory and performance analysis, reporting and post-TX reconciliation.
The SingTel Group is Asia’s leading communications group and the largest listed company on the Singapore Exchange by market capitalisation, providing a wide spectrum of multimedia and infocomms technology (ICT) solutions, including voice, data and video services over fixed and wireless platforms.
