MIH Group

MIH Group is one of the world leading providers of television platforms services, Internet services and pay media and interactive technologies. The group's operations span over 50 countries. Its activities are focused on subscriber platforms providing subscription, television and Internet services to over 2 million paying subscribers in Africa, the Mediterranean and Asia. Over 55% of the group's subscriber base consists of digital subscribers. Across its platforms, MIH has secured long-term rights to premium movies, major sporting events and popular children's programming, all of which are tailored for the local market. The television platforms also provide a range of interactive services such as online games, shopping, banking and on-demand information.

Supporting its subscriber platforms, MIH technologies, including OpenTV, Irdeto Access, and Mindport provide interactive, encryption, customer care and billing and other related services to channel and platform operators worldwide. Open TV builds a complete software and infrastructure platform that enables digital interactive television and brings on-demand content to other digital communications devices. OpenTV's software has been shipped with or installed in more than 20 million digital set-top boxes worldwide and has been selected by 48 digital cable, satellite and terrestrial communications networks in over 50 countries.

MIH Beijing office in China was established in October 1998. Since than MIH has been working closely with SARFT (State Academy for Radio, Film and Television) and CCTV (China Central Television). CBSat platform, the first Direct to home (DTH) platform in China was built by MIH technology companies for SARFT. The platform has been running successfully with MIH technologies for three years and is considered to be one of the most advanced DTH systems in the world.

The group's close cooperation with the CCTV culminated in the Chinese president and his delegation visit to SA MIH headquarters in April 2000, and in jointly launched CCTV 4 and CCTV 9 International channels that distributed via MIH satellite operations to Europe, Africa and East Asia.

MIH's customer track record in China is impressive with the portfolio of over 15 customers, including Chinese major network operators such as China Central Television, SARFT, Macao Cable, Shanghai Cable, TVB Hong Kong etc.

MIH was awarded the project of digitalization of the Shanghai Cable Network Interactive TV platform, managing the entire installation of the project including both its own suite of products as well as the products from the world-renowned third-party vendors such as Nokia, Philips, nCUBE and Oracle.

Shanghai Cable Network is China's leading cable network operator, with 3.5 million analogue subscribers, covering 99 percent of urban Shanghai; it is the largest cable network in the world. This project enabled MIH to use years of practical experience in broadcast operations to offer SCN a unique cross-platform technology solution to support its large subscriber base.

MIH has a 46.5% holding in QQ; with more than half a billion daily messages being processed and one million paying subscribers, QQ is the most pervasive instant-messaging platform in China.

Irdeto Access, MIH conditional access company recently completed the first successful integration of Chinese algorithm with its CA system, as a result of close cooperation with SARFT and government security agencies since 1999. That is the first successful trial integration of foreign CA with Chinese algorithm. Irdeto was chosen by SARFT to be official CA provider for the Chinese market, due to its advanced and mature conditional access technology that had been localized to better meet the needs of the Chinese market.
Its Beijing office is ISO 9001 certified and its smart cards circulating in the Chinese market surpassed 300,000. Irdeto is also the first Pay Media Company to be admitted to the China Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition, the only organization in China committed to anti-piracy across the variety of industries.

Supported by a network of high profile and influential partners MIH have grown into a multinational provider of entertainment, interactive and e-commerce services and employs over 6,000 people. As a worldwide company policy, MIH supports the customers through local offices worldwide to ensure 24/7 support in same time zone in the same language, providing support on project coordination, industrialization support and quality assurance.

MIH is very active in establishing partnerships in the Chinese market, believing that partnerships are of major importance for gaining the foothold in the market and creating the value together that will benefit the company, the partner and the market as a whole.

MIH China
Ian Barnard
President & Chief Representative
Tel: (+ 8610) 8527 6418
Fax: (+ 8610) 8527 5680
Email: ibarnard@asia.mih.net

Address: Suite 300, Beijing Sunflower Tower 37 Maizidian Street, Chaoyang District
Beijing, 0026
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