Pedro Bandeira, Vice President Product and New Business, Europe at Deutsche Telekom, has made it clear that his company would like to recreate the full super-aggregator Pay TV experience on multiscreen devices and not just on television screens. This would mean that Pay TV operator smartphone, tablet and laptop apps contain dozens of third-party content provider apps/services within them and have unified content discovery across all these streaming sources.
The app would also provide the means to subscribe and unsubscribe to the third-party hosted streaming services, with the Pay TV provider being the universal subscriptions manager – a core future Pay TV operator function that Bandeira believes should also appear in all Deutsche Telekom’s consumer touchpoints.
“This is a clear part of our vision,” he revealed at Connected TV World Summit this spring. You can read where this multiscreen super-aggregator app fits into the wider Deutsche Telekom Pay TV and CPE roadmap in our separate report, here.
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