CSG Fuels New, Digital Service for UK Quad-Play Provider
ENGLEWOOD, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
CSG
Systems International, Inc. (NASDAQ:
CSGS), the trusted global partner to launch and monetize digital
services, today announced that its Ascendon™ digital services
platform will power new ways for TalkTalk
TV customers to view, browse, rent or buy a wide range of video content,
whether at home or on-the-go.
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TalkTalk is a quad-play communications service provider (CSP), offering
pay television, voice, broadband, and mobile services to businesses and
consumers in the United Kingdom. TalkTalk chose Ascendon to further
elevate its TV offering as a competitive digital service, aligned with
consumer demand for access to video content anytime, anywhere, across
devices.
Ascendon will provide an intuitive app-based storefront and other
services that will allow consumers to access titles from TalkTalk TV's
video product catalog through the set-top box or mobile devices.
Aleks Habdank, Managing Director of TalkTalk TV, said, "This is an
exciting new partnership for TalkTalk TV and one that will enable us to
accelerate our mobile viewing offering. The integration of the Ascendon
platform complements a number of recent innovations aimed at delivering
a faster, more intuitive and seamless TV experience. We led the market
by being the first provider to roll out the Next Generation YouView
upgrade, which over 50 percent of our customers are already enjoying,
and earlier this month, TalkTalk was named TV Provider of the Year in a
public vote. We're looking forward to customers being able to enjoy even
more of the entertainment they love, whenever and wherever they want,
both in and out of the home."
TalkTalk TV's new approach to its video services will leverage the
Ascendon platform to create recurring revenue streams through
merchandising models such as season passes and box sets. The platform
allows for future growth to deliver a unified quad-play experience to
the end customer by uniting previously siloed service lines. In
addition, the platform will integrate with TalkTalk TV's existing
infrastructure to complete fulfilment and provisioning of services.
"For CSPs, Ascendon can bring new, digital services to market quickly,
while moving their operations purposefully toward a business model that
dramatically reduces operational expenses, fully digitizes front and
back offices, and unites a portfolio of services into a single customer
relationship," said Kent Steffen, president of global OTT business at
CSG International.
The addition of Ascendon marks the latest step in TalkTalk's ten-year
partnership with CSG that spans billing, data mediation, interconnect
and other services. TalkTalk's purchase of Ascendon includes the
Internet TV category of solutions, which will streamline the TalkTalk TV
viewing experience both on the set-top box and through a new, optimized
mobile app offering.
About CSG International
CSG
International (NASDAQ: CSGS) is the trusted global partner to
help clients launch and monetize communications and entertainment
services in the digital age. Leveraging 30 years of experience and
expertise in voice, video, data and content services, CSG delivers
market-leading revenue management and customer interaction solutions in
licensed and managed service models. The company drives business
transformation initiatives for the majority of the top 100 global
communications service providers, including AT&T, Charter
Communications, Comcast, DISH, ESPN, Media-Saturn, Orange, Reliance,
SingTel Optus, Telefonica, Telstra, Vodafone, Vivo and Verizon. For more
information, visit our website at www.csgi.com.
About TalkTalk TV
TalkTalk launched its TV offering in 2012 and it quickly became
Britain's fastest growing TV service. To date around 1.3 million
customers, over a third of all TalkTalk homes, take TV from the value
for money provider. As a result of a number of high profile content
deals, TalkTalk TV viewers have access to both Sky Sports and BT Sport,
Netflix, hit HBO shows such as Game of Thrones and blockbuster movies to
rent and own from all major studios.
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CSG International
Elise Brassell, +1 303-804-4962
Public
Relations
Elise.brassell@csgi.com
or
Liz
Bauer, +1 303-804-4065
Investor Relations
Liz.bauer@csgi.com
or
TalkTalk
Maxine
Sackey, +44 (020) 3802 9081
Consumer PR Manager
Maxine.sackey@talktalkplc.com
Source: CSG International
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