July 18 2012 – Music and entertainment giant GMM Grammy will launch a pay-TV service within the next couple of months after the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission grants licences for pay-TV service providers in August.
Chairman Paiboon Damrong-chaitham said yesterday that the company wanted to ensure that the regulations to govern satellite and pay-TV service providers were complete and ready for all players.
Once licensing comes into effect, the company is prepared to launch at least 10 pay-TV channels, he said.
Paiboon added that his company would offer prepaid service to registered customers who want to access pay-TV content on its 10 special channels via GMM Z satellite TV receivers. For example, the package that costs Bt300 monthly offers five or six sports channels, and the Bt200 package offers four entertainment channels.
The upcoming pay-TV services will be run by GMM Z, the satellite-broadcasting unit of GMM Grammy. GMM Z is also the trader and distributor of satellite TV set-top boxes under the same name.