Video On-Demand For Regional QLD

March 3, 2006: Video on-demand channel Anytime has announced a new partnership with Regional Internet Australia (RIA) to distribute movies to customers across Queensland over the internet.

Based in Townsville, RIA will be using a fibreoptic backbone combined with ADSL2+ to deliver subscribers 20Mbps of streaming video content.

The content will be provided by Anytime, who will be kick starting the service with 500 initial movie titles that will be encrypted and stored at RIA’s new data centre in Townsville.

RIA’s CEO Warren Thomson told IDM that after the service’s launch in June this library will increase by 1,000 titles a month to a target of 20,000 movies. This will require an abyssal and ultra fast storage network, which RIA is confident it has.

Anytime’s chief executive officer and president, Craig Zimbulis, said that this is the first agreement of its type and scale in Queensland, and the second in Australia next to Anytime’s on-demand service in the ACT.

The service is set to launch in Townsville in June, with Cairns, Rockhampton, Gladstone, Mackay, Roma, Mt Isa and Dalby to follow shortly after.

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