FetchTV stepping up competition with Foxtel by getting Optus and iiNet to bundle it with Telephone a - Polidicks

[IMG]http://resources1.news.com.au/images/2013/12/15/1226783/568601-131216-b-scott-lorson-fetch-tv.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/1497782_10152129063630972_546307140_n.jpg[/IMG] [QUOTE]INTERNET-TELEVISION provider Fetch TV is muscling up with partners SingTel-Optus and iiNet to sign up more customers with a multi-million-dollar marketing blitz in response to Foxtel's decision to start offering telephone services. The recent decision by Foxtel's 50 per cent owners, News Corp Australia and Telstra, to offer consumers the "triple-play" option of bundled pay-TV, broadband and telephone services from late next year has changed the dynamic in the local market, and reignited the battle for customers. Fetch TV, which was launched in 2010 with the backing of Malaysian pay-TV operator Astro All Asia Networks, offers customers a digital recording device that can access internet-based pay-TV through partnerships with telcos. The low-end pay-TV market is preparing to invest millions of ad dollars in building awareness and subscriber numbers to stymie Foxtel's triple-play proposition before broadband customers with a Foxtel package are offered the opportunity to switch providers. "Collectively the coalition of partners will start to market the product aggressively in the first half," Fetch TV chief executive Scott Lorson told The Australian. Fetch TV's partners also include Internode, Westnet and Adam Internet. "We've made a very substantial investment in developing the platform over the last four or five years," he said. "But we will shift our focus from building to actually becoming a sales and marketing organisation in 2014." Mr Lorson said Fetch TV was targeting an aggressive acceleration in subscriber numbers with the marketing campaign, having this month passed 100,000 subscribers for the first time. Despite having taken four years to reach this milestone, Mr Lorson bullishly predicted that Fetch TV would be able to double that number to 200,000 within the next 12 months. "We've doubled our subscriber numbers in the past 12 months and we expect to double again inside of the same time frame," he said. "The run rate is there. If we're growing at that rate without marketing then clearly there is an opportunity to increase that growth with greater advocacy and awareness."[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.theaustralian.com.au/media/fetch-muscles-up-before-a-foxtel-grab/story-e6frg996-1226783596644[/url] [QUOTE]A suite of brand spanking new channels are due to arrive on @iiNet TV with Fetch in January 2014! These channels include TVhits, Nickelodeon, Nick Jr, MTV Dance and Channel NewsAsia.[/QUOTE] [url]https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152129063630972&set=a.458977525971.242378.107411020971&type=1[/url] [editline]18th December 2013[/editline] The Australian article is 2 days old btw

FetchTV would be useful for me if I managed to get more than 4Mbps, as it stands only one person can watch a (good quality) stream at once on my connection.

[QUOTE=TheDecryptor;43221247]FetchTV would be useful for me if I managed to get more than 4Mbps, as it stands only one person can watch a (good quality) stream at once on my connection.[/QUOTE] Wait does Fetch not have an alternative method of watching, like satellite or cable?

I don't think so, everything I've seen pointed to it being internet only (It apparently requires multicast, but I know Internode offer it without that, since multicast on the wider internet is a pain)

So I'm guessing Fetch would be unmetered for iiNet and Optus customers, like how Foxtel Go and Play are unmetered to bigpond customers

purely internet, sadly completely useless for me at 1.2mbps, might be worth something when I swap to telstra cable

That sucks I thought it was like a Satellite and Cable service as well not soley Internet I don't have the greatest net in the world but I can still watch Foxtel Go at full HD [t]http://i.imgur.com/HqlSZ0r.jpg[/t] No buffering either

Yeah, cable isn't an option for us, and Telstra is pretty much a no go as well. Internode is a pretty good ISP, gives me IPv6, faster routing (Less hops before I leave their network) and I get unmetered Steam and XBL content.

I really wanted to go with Internode but my area is wholly Telstra, anything else cost a lot of money and you have shit plans For example iiNet only does those retarded on and off peak shit and it'd cost us a lot of money Not to mention the hassle it is to find another port in the exchange, holy fuck

Yeah I had a friend who lived on a new estate, Telstra just happened to wire up the exchange in such a way that they could only use them for Internet (via cable), no other companies could offer service. Also, pair gain on every house. Edit: Spot when I downloaded an Xbox One game. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/EqgEyWD.png[/IMG]