On Demand Group (ODG), a subsidiary of SeaChange International (NASDAQ: SEAC), will provide an outsourced video-on-demand solution to the Hellenic Telecommunication Organisation S.A. (OTE).
OTE, Greece’s largest telco with 5 million fixed lines and over 700,000 broadband customers, has plans to extend its service offering and roll-out IPTV services to its customer base.
U.K. based ODG is Europe’s leading video-on-demand content acquisition and management partner to operators including one of Europe’s largest cable operators, Virgin Media. ODG helped establish Virgin Media’s TV on-demand service, which now serves 3.2 million homes, and has been actively expanding in Europe, working in the Spanish, Italian, German and Austrian markets.
“We are very excited to be working with OTE on its forthcoming VOD service in Greece,” said Tony Kelly, Managing Director, ODG. “This deal with OTE meets our topline objective of expanding our business into new markets. It demonstrates our core competency of being able to bring compelling content services to market rapidly to give the operator maximum leverage over competition, and also utilizes our world leading skills for driving on-demand penetration and usage.”
