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JOHOR FOLKS GETS A GLIMPSE OF TM'S ‘DIGITAL LIFESTYLE’ SHOWCASE
A lucky draw winner posing with BlueHyppo during the UrbanLive roadshow at AEON Tebrau City, Johor Bahru.


Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) visited Johor Bahru last weekend where Johoreans were given a glimpse into TM’s digital lifestyle, which included a showcase of its new video content portal, Hypp.TV.

Hypp.TV offers premium online video content related to news, lifestyle and entertainment under its four channels. The News Channel provides content from DW-TV, one of the world’s leading news providers, while its local lifestyle and entertainment channel named Local Scene, focuses on fashion, food, extreme sports and celebrities. The Sports Channel is currently featuring Barclays Premier League content, while the latest addition to Hypp.TV, which is Aniworkz, showcases the creative animation works of students from local universities. All Hypp.TV content aside from the exclusive Barclays Premier League content are available free-of-charge.

The portal, which serves as a complement to BlueHyppo.com, TM’s main lifestyle portal was launched last month.

The ‘UrbanLive’ roadshow, powered by Streamyx, highlights various broadband applications available through TM’s main lifestyle portal, BlueHyppo.com, which encompasses games, music, news, education and communication channels targeted at the younger market, who are keen to embrace the digital lifestyle. BlueHyppo.com has over one million members and acts as a hub for locally developed content with various lifestyle channels and services on news, music, online games, finance, travel, fashion, entertainment, arts & culture, technology, video content and much more.

Puan Zainab Hashim, Acting Chief Executive Officer, TMNet Sdn. Bhd. Said, “It goes without saying that the digital lifestyle and the Internet are essentially ubiquitous and vital for both work and play. The UrbanLive roadshow presents a great opportunity for us to not only showcase TM’s new products and services but also provide an avenue for us to interface with our customers and to understand their needs and requirements in an informal environment,”

“With our new channel Hypp.TV, we are providing the latest news, updates and information on the local scene, sports and world news through online videos and opening up new channels of interaction through forums, thus uniting Malaysians in a virtual sense.”

Hypp.TV’s Sport Channel features exclusive Barclays Premier League content
Hypp.TV provides On-Demand video match highlights, bonus clips such as Goal of The Week, Team of the Week, latest fixtures, match round-ups and highlights from every match of the 2007/2008 season.

To enjoy this exclusive content, existing Streamyx customers can sign up for the Barclays Premier League video content at RM9.90 for a one-month subscription or RM24.90 for a three-month subscription. Non-Streamyx subscribers can also enjoy this service at RM14.90 for a one-month subscription or RM39.90 for a three-month subscription.

TM's Participation at UrbanLive, 2007
Among the activities that took place at the ‘UrbanLive’ event in Aeon Tebrau City, Johor Bahru on August 18 and 19 were BlueHyppo.com’s content showcase, celebrity meet-and-greet sessions, lucky draws for new Streamyx subscribers and various stage activities, which included cultural dance performances like the Dayak and Buluh dances.

Other BlueHyppo.com offerings showcased include:
· HyppTimes - the latest localized news on events happenings in the Klang Valley and reviews from the arts, clubs, food, people, places and technology;
· GameZone - interactive online gaming channel where you can access a huge array of online games from free ones to subscription based ones, gaming tips, latest games reviews and the opportunity to play against some of the top gamers in the country;

· Music & Movies - Movie Portal with movie reviews and the latest trailers plus a Music Portal with over 130,000 songs for download, album reviews and music videos;
· B-Smart - Educational Zone consisting numerous online interactive educational modules with online tutorage to prepare students for those important exams;
· QUMP – digital interactive repository of Islamic multimedia content for Muslims to recite the Holy Qu'ran and practice their Islamic faith at the click of a button.
· e-browse - the leading online digital publication service. All major newspapers and various magazines delivered straight to your desktop. Flip, scan and even make digital clippings. News archives are available up to 7 days.
· PhotoZone – Print your digital photos for just 38sen for 4R-sized photos. Plus, develop sizes, 5R, 6R, 8R or 10R and get 1 free for each photo you print! Just become a member, upload your photos, place your order and PhotoZone will deliver right them to your doorstop for free (within Klang Valley).

Visitors to UrbanLive, Aeon Tebrau, Johor Bahru were also given the opportunity to sign-up for the Streamyx Merdeka Bash package, the latest Streamyx promotion from TM. It offers Streamyx 1.0Mbps broadband connection at a reduced subscription price of RM77 per month with various free content like e-browse newspaper and magazines, online games, B-smart Britannica Encyclopaedia and many more. The highlight of the package would be the free 12-month subscription to exclusive online video content on Barclays Premier League via Hypp.TV. Details on the package are in the attached brochure.

The ‘UrbanLive’ roadshow kicked off in April at Petaling Jaya, where BlueHyppo celebrated its sixth anniversary celebrations. It continued to Ipoh, Penang and the previous leg was in KL.

TM will be participating in the last two stops of ‘UrbanLive’ roadshow, which will be held at the following dates and locations:

8th & 9th September 2007 – Sunway Pyramid, Petaling Jaya
24th & 25th November 2007 - 1 Utama, Petaling Jaya
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