Ortikon Interactive Ltd announced today that its ORTIKON ACE® MHP-based interactive TV services, platform and head-end management solution have passed all the acceptance tests set by the major Finnish cable consortium comprising 3KTV (Finnet), TTV (Elisa), Turku Cable and VLP (Vaasa Telephone Company), which together reach over 60% of Finnish cable households.
In the autumn of 2004, the consortium will launch commercial interactive MHP services which will include launcher, DVB-HTML browser, EPG, e-mail, welfare services, eLearning solutions, T-Commerce services, enewspapers, mobile communication services with SMS and enhanced MMS solutions and pay-TV package-ordering services. A head-end solution for automatic service-information management and tools for object carousel management will also be implemented. The whole package is based on the ORTIKON ACE® Platform which offers interfaces to payment, subscriber management, content databases and return channel systems as well as to CRM systems.