According to The National, the UAE's IPTV market will not extend to triple play services, which will curtail true competition in the provision of IPTV by telcos Etisalat and du this year.

Operators Etisalat and du, currently offer triple play packages for fixed line telephony, internet and IPTV in non-competing areas of the Emirates. However in December, fibre-based services of both are due to open up to all customers across the UAE. All except Etisalat’s E-Life and du’s duTV IPTV offerings, it would seem.

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