du TV+ to launch in UAE with Microsoft Mediaroom

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
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DUBAI — ‘du’, the second telecommunications company of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), plans to launch high-definition (HD) IP television services in the UAE next month. The new du TV+ service is powered by Microsoft Mediaroom, and features digital recording and video-on-demand, as well as HD TV.

Existing du customers, of which there are 65,000, will be migrated to du TV+ services by swapping out their existing du TV decoders.