MUMBAI: UTV Global Broadcasting (UGBL) has signed up with Malaysian IPTV platform HyppTV to carry its two channels - UTV Bindass and UTV Movies.

HyppTV is Malaysia’s newest pay TV service where the content is delivered by Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) through its high speed broadband service, UniFi.

UGBL CEO MK Anand said, “We are pleased to announce the foray of our channels into Malaysia and with HyppTV as our distribution partner, we are confident of our content reaching out to the right audiences. The Malaysian TV viewer is widely exposed and has a taste for quality entertainment and we are sure our content will surpass their expectations.”
  
UTV Bindass offers a mix of reality content as well as Bollywood music, while UTV Movies is the onle movie channel coming from a motion picture studio.

TM EVP new media Jeremy Kung said, “We welcome our partnership with UTV and the diversity of content that we can now offer via HyppTV. We believe that with the addition of new channels from UTV, we have the right mix of content to meet the discerning tastes of the Malaysian audience. All our new channels are exclusive to HyppTV. In addition, we believe that our service has entered the market at the right time, offering consumers a whole new alternative entertainment experience.”
  
TM UniFi is currently being offered with three residential packages. The residential triple-play packages are VIP5 at RM149 a month, VIP10 at RM199 a month and VIP20 at RM249 a month. The HyppTV service is delivered via an additional dedicated 8 Mbps bandwidth in addition to the subscribed UniFi package bandwidth access speed.