亞洲首富推出辦寬帶送高清電視服務

Three years after elbowing into the Indian wireless phone market with free calls and data, billionaire Mukesh Ambani is back at it.

三年前，億萬富翁穆克什·安巴尼憑藉免費電話和數據服務打入了印度無線電話市場。

This time, Asia's richest man is handing out TVs to hook users on movies and entertainment shows via Internet.

這一次，這位亞洲首富正通過提供電視來吸引那些用網絡觀看電影和娛樂節目的用戶。

Mr Ambani's JioFiber broadband service comes with a high-definition television and set-top boxes at no charge for annual lifetime subscribers.

安巴尼的JioFiber寬帶服務配有高清電視和機頂盒，終身用戶每年免費使用。

The offer by Reliance Jio Infocomm includes subscriptions to most premium streaming services with prices starting from 700 rupees (S$13) a month.

由Reliance Jio Infocomm提供的該服務，包括訂閱大多數高級流媒體的服務，計劃起價爲每月700盧比（13新元）。

The fibre-TV salvo comes days after Jio formally swept into the No. 1 spot for wireless services after free calls and cheap data lured hundreds of millions of subscribers and left rivals Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea struggling under mounting debt.

在免費電話和廉價數據吸引了數億用戶後，Jio前幾天正式成爲無線服務領域的老大，這讓競爭對手Bharti Airtel和Vodafone Idea在債務不斷攀升的情況下舉步維艱。

Telecom carriers around the world are adding entertainment content to their offerings as a way to compete for users and add revenue, especially in markets where the number of mobile subscriptions has reached saturation.

爲了爭奪用戶和增加收入，世界各地的電信運營商都在他們的產品中加入娛樂內容，尤其是在手機用戶數量已經飽和的市場方面。

In India, video-on-demand growth itself is explosive, according to researcher Boston Consulting Group.

波士頓諮詢公司的研究人員表示，在印度，視頻點播業務本身的增長是爆炸性的。