DIVERSIFIED CONTENT: The box would give subscribers access to more content, including Android TV, HBO, iQiyi and Line TV, as Kbro faces intensifying competition
Taipei Times
Date: Sep 24, 2019
By: Lisa Wang / Staff reporter
Kbro Co (凱擘), the nation’s biggest cable television system operator, yesterday said that starting
A Kbro employee flicks through options on the company’s new A1 set-top box at a news conference in Taipei yesterday.
Photo: CNA
Kbro’s announcement came following a major regulatory change early this year allowing Chunghwa Telecom’s Internet TV business unit, known as multimedia-on-demand (MOD), greater flexibility in offering content and channel packages.
Before that, MOD only served as a platform provider delivering video on demand.
“The competition landscape has completely changed. We are facing the strongest competition from Chunghwa Telecom’s MOD,” Kbro chairman James Jeng (鄭俊卿) told a media briefing in Taipei.
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