Ålcom in english
Ålcom is a company from the Åland Islands that sells broadband, mobile telephony and digital TV services. The following products are delivered outside the Åland Island.
IPTV
IPTV is defined as the secure and reliable delivery of video and related services to subscribers. These services may include, for example, Live TV, Video On Demand (VOD) and Interactive TV. These services are delivered across an access agnostic, packet switched network that utilizes the IP protocol to transport the audio, video and control signals. In contrast to video over the public Internet, with IPTV deployments, network security and performance are tightly managed to ensure a superior entertainment experience, resulting in a compelling business environment for content providers, advertisers and customers alike.
From a TV watcher’s point of view, IPTV is very simple: instead of receiving TV programs as broadcast signals that enter your home from a rooftop antenna, satellite dish, or fiber-optic cable, you get them streamed (downloaded and played almost simultaneously) through your Internet connection. You watch the program either on a set-top box (a kind of adapter that fits between your Internet connection and your existing television receiver, decoding incoming signals so your TV can display Internet programs) or directly through an app in your Smart-TV.
By using Smart TVs, you can reduce the need for the STB devices for the users already owning Smart TV at home. This improves the TV experience for the end user, with a decreasing number of home devices and using only one remote control, and most importantly, it reduces the investment costs spent on STBs.
We use modern standardized HTML5 web technologies to create stunning user interfaces for our customers. Every TV service is unique and that is how we perceive every new project.
Our mission is to offer a solution that give the customer an opportunity to watch TV on what devices it likes, anywhere at any time. Therefore, we have interfaces for Set-Top-Boxes, Mobile devices, the Web and of course Smart TV. We can also deliver content to you using IPTV or OTT (Mobile-IPTV).
Smart features like pause and resume Live TV, Start-over & Catch up, Network PVR and Video on Demand gives you as a customer many options on how you like to consume TV.
We operate our own head end function, receiving more than 300 channels by IP and satellite from multiple sources. We have direct agreements and contacts with content providers around the world. By having our own head end with direct contacts to the content providers enables us to offer an extraordinary TV solution that always have up to date content from the biggest TV-channels.
IPTV as a White label solution
Ålcom offer a complete IPTV solution including functionality for NPVR, LPVR, VOD, SVOD and the possibility to add on Mobile-IPTV. Our offer is priced in steps depending on number of end-users. This way the scalable costs of the system are distributed to you as resellers and there is an incentive to sell IPTV to more end customers.
For more information about IPTV please contact Timo Niemelä at +358 18 23 500 or timo.niemelä@alcom.ax
MAPI
MAPI is a SMS API (application program interface) that enables customers to deliver SMS to their clients in a modern and secure way. MAPI was developed to be easily integrated with your current systems or applications. It provides a seamless integration using a modern REST API. Ålcom is a mobile operator with own interworking- and roaming agreements that connects with hundreds of operators worldwide. This means that there are no middlemen, this makes us cost effective as you connect directly to an mobile operator. The service includes an own Finnish mobile subscription number, or alphanumeric sender id. You can add more numbers to your service as your business grows. Statistics and reports are built into the platform, enabling customers to have full overview of the inbound and outbound traffic.
Ålcom also provides SMPP and CIMD2 connections for users that requires high traffic SMS services.
Domain name services
Ålcom offers domain registrar services for the .AX and .FI ccTLDs in affiliation with the Government of Åland (http://whois.ax) and the Finnish communications regulatory authority (http://domain.fi).
Trough our agent accounts we also provide registration and domain name services for the majority of all top-level domains as well as for most ccTLDs (Country Code Top-level domains).
A domain registration form can be found on our website: Domain application
For more information please contact:
+358 (0)18 23 500