Satellite & Cable

August 5 , 2003
NDS, MagnaQuest tie up for CAS

HYDERABAD -- NDS recently announced a strategic partnership with MagnaQuest for integrating the NDS VideoGuard conditional access with MagnaQuest's MQSubscribe customer care and billing solution. The companies will also co-operate for joint sales and marketing activities in the Asia Pacific region.

The integrated solutions create a valuable opportunity for operators to maximise their revenue and reduce churn. VideoGuard's robust feature set enables operators to package content in a variety of ways, in conjunction with MQSubscribe's ability to bill flexibly.

Sue Taylor, vice president and general manager, NDS, Asia Pacific, said: "NDS is committed to providing open end-to-end solutions that ensure faster and easier integration for our customers. We selected MagnaQuest because the India-specific features of MQSubscribe make it uniquely suited to the Indian cable TV market."

A.N.Vasan, vice president -- sales and marketing, MagnaQuest, added: "NDS and MagnaQuest have ambitious aspirations to serve the customers with an unbeatable value proposition. Both companies have developed world-leading technology, and have deep domain and geographical knowledge of the markets, but also continually strive to improve it with aggressive product roadmaps and a strong R&D team. Together we offer an end-to-end pay-TV solution with a very compelling value proposition."

Contact:
MagnaQuest Technologies
Tel: +91-40-2475-0220/0975
Email: srini@magnaquest.com
www.magnaquest.com