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Australian ISP Internode has successfully trialled the delivery of its IPTV service 'FetchTV' over the country's new fibre-based National Broadband Network (NBN), without using IP multicast.

Simon Hackett, managing director of Internode, states that the company has also successfully trialled the delivery of its IPTV service to customers connected to the Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) network ports operated by housing estate telecoms specialist Opticomm.

The service is being progressively enabled across the country this week, and Internode now plans to launch a national commercial trial imminently, according to Mr. Hackett, writing in the company blog (here).

During the trial period, Internode will be reserving 6 Mbps of a customer's FTTH port capacity and dedicating it to the delivery of FetchTV, although that requirement is likely to be removed in the future, once the national trials are further along.

Mr. Hackett invites all interested Internode customers on the NBN or Opticomm Fibre networks to try FetchTV using the trial and provide feedback, although the service will still cost AUD 19.95 (US$ 19.95) per month.

The nationwide trials are expected to last two or three months. Internode's IPTV service was officially launched earlier this year, providing its subscribers with linear and on-demand programming as part of its broader strategy to develop a suite of converged video services.

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