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Optus launches FetchTV from $10 a month

news The nation’s number two telco Optus has launched the FetchTV Internet video platform already being sold by iiNet, Internode and Adam Internet for the starting price of $9.95 a month — a charge which will be waived when customers are using its $109 Fusion home broadband and telephone bundle.

In a statement this afternoon, Optus noted it would launch the service under the MeTV brand. Like the other ISPs, Optus will offer customers a personal video recorder device to access the service.
For the starting cost of $9.95 a month, customers will get the PVR box, which comes with a built-in digital tuner and a one terabyte hard drive, the ability to watch, pause and record free to air and digital channels, and the Movie Box service bundled, which offers customers 30 preselected, on-demand movies per month, with seven new films added to customers’ roster every week.

Customers will be able to watch additional movies for between $3.95 and $5.95 (latest release) per movie, and subscription TV packs will be available for $6.95 a month — adding channels in genres such as ‘Kids’, ‘Music TV’ and ‘Factual’. More genres and foreign language channels will be added soon, Optus said in its statement.

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