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All rights reserved.

2. Understanding How triple Pay is impacting on
African Broadcasters
Presented to AFRICACOM
13 November 2013
Lulama Mokhobo
Group CEO

3. It Starts With BETTER TV
Five majors TV shifts
started to happen
Time shifting
Quantity shifting
Quality shifting
Terminal shifting
Engagement shifting
 Instant Channel Change
 Time-shifted Television
 Personalized Content Delivery
 Integration Of Information &
Communication Applications

4. Innovation Drives Differentiation
Increasing Differentiation & Integration
Personalized
and Blended Services
Conversational
Services over TV
My Own TV,
Amigo TV
Voice/Video
Conferencing
Blended
Services
Classic Triple Play
Internet
IPTV
VoIP
POTS
Reachability-based
Communication
Hybrid Phone
Enhanced
Services
Commercial
Bundles
Mobile Office Voice
CMM and WPABX
Increasing Innovation
The Challenge Is To Navigate This Trend While Optimizing Total Cost Of Ownership

5. T-Play Trends leading to Challenges for Service
Providers
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Control over services and access to them on demand
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Support for three screens, doesn't care about access network
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Differentiated, compelling and intuitive user interface
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A competitive price
User centric
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Acquire premium content
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Access to and search in the long tail of content (including UGC)
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Offer broadcast and on-demand content
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Content and device matching
Content really becomes is king
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Design end-to-end network
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Guarantee quality of experience
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Operation: install, maintain
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Cost effective: e.g., xDSL/FTTx, 3G or DVB-H
Supporting network
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Interactivity and micro-payments
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User-generated content and revenue sharing
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User profiling and targeted advertising
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Managed services
New business models

6. Advanced Triple/Quad Play Converges
the Devices in the Connected Home
Mobile
VoIP
PSTN
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7. Key Features
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Ease of Use
• Intuative user interface
Personalization
• Language selection and skin selection
• Font size and “accessibility mode”
Parental Control
• Fine grained access control
• Flexible permission system
Extendable Catalog System
• VOD/radio/TV/music/games catalog
• Simple navigation
• Quality & admittances rating aware
Browse Based Activities
• TV-friendly web browsing
• RSS news reader
• Bookmarks catalog
• Gaming
Messaging
• On-screen message notification
• Unicast or multicast message delivery
• Conditional/filtered message delivery

8. Intuitive Electronic Program Guide
• Easy-to-use & intuitive
• Customizable & skinable
• Connected to EPG XML data server
• EPG import (tvData/Tribune)
• VOD import/export (Cablelabs XML
packages)
• Client side rendering and cashing
• Incremental loading
• Reminder (TV alert, SMS alert)
• PVR control
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9. Integrated Triple Play Telephony
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Caller ID on TV
Call history voice & video
TV-based voice mail retrieval
Message waiting indication on TV
TV/PC-based click-to-talk from directory
TV-based video calling and conferencing
TV-based video mail
Video 3G interconnection

10. Area of media services and media context
MEDIA - SERVICES
LINEAR
MEDIA - CONTEXT
(lean
backward)
PERSONAL
(lean forward)
MULTIMEDIA
(audio-visual
mat)
SHARED
NON LINEAR
(audio-visual
mat)
(data, text, pictures, game)
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2
3
4
5
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9
MOBILE
(on the
move)

11. Triple play in content and in context
MEDIA - SERVICES
LINEAR
MEDIA - CONTEXT
(lean backward)
MULTIMEDIA
(audio-visual mat)
SHARED
NON LINEAR
(audio-visual mat)
(data, text, pictures, game)
1
2
3
a integrated media service via one
brand
PERSONAL
(lean forward)
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media experience
adapted/presented for every
context
MOBILE
(on the move)
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12. Media organisations grow ...
MEDIA - SERVICES
LINEAR
MEDIA - CONTEXT
(lean backward)
PERSONAL
(lean forward)
MULTIMEDIA
(audio-visual mat)
SHARED
NON LINEAR
(audio-visual mat)
(data, text, pictures, game)
1
2
3
4
MOBILE
(on the move)
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5
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Media/public companies expected
to be active on all platforms:
•Different services
•Different networks
•Different devices
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13. Triple Play Solution
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14. Public Service Broadcasting’s Future
through various platforms

15. Benefits For The End User And The Service Provider:
The Win-Win Deal
Rich
Multimedia
Common Service Delivery
Platform Supports Rich
Media Services:
Video on demand,
Personal TV,
Online gaming,
Sharing of music, photos
and home videos
Subscriber
Control
Seamless
Experience
Delivers Next Generation
User-centric Services:
Offers Highly Differentiated
User Experience:
Provides a personalized and
interactive service mix
that integrates seamlessly with end
user’s communications,
information and entertainment
needs
Enriches lives of end users
IPTV, residential VoIP and other
converged multimedia
applications
Provides a better triple play
experience
Personalization
Interactivity
Accessibility

16. Finally, a Common IP Triple Play Network Should Become
a Platform For Continual Service Creation
eHealthcare
Local Content
E-Commerce/
Entertainment
Community Security
Community Services
Video Dating
IP Network
Video Meetings
Games
Family
Monitoring
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Community Info