Gateway Broadcast Services Extends NDS Relationship – Selects Middleware and EPG for Its African Pay TV Service

NDS announced that Gateway Broadcast Services (GBS), has broadened its relationship with NDS. GBS has chosen middleware and NDS Electronic Program Guide (EPG) to enhance its pay-TV satellite service for sub-Saharan Africa .

Under the new agreement, NDS middleware and EPG will feature in all new GTV set-top boxes (STBs), and will also be downloaded to all existing GTV STBs in a phased upgrade starting in Autumn 2008. The technology will enable GBS to strengthen its GTV brand by offering a common look and feel across current and future STBs, as well as improve the efficiency of its STB maintenance and customer care operations.

GTV delivers top-quality TV entertainment and information services to customers who were previously unable to afford subscription TV. GTV’s service employs the very latest in satellite and STB technologies, providing customers with world-class digital reception and content at a price within the reach of middle-income Africans

Julian McIntyre, Founder and Managing Director of GBS, remarked: “We are confident that in NDS we have a long-term technology partner committed to helping us provide the best, most affordable pay-TV service to audiences in sub-Saharan Africa. We selected MediaHighway middleware and EPG because, like VideoGuard, they truly are best-in-class solutions.”