Subscribers of Ketchikan Public Utilities are now enjoying a more interactive TV experience. KPU has recently implemented Nokia Siemens Networks’ Home Entertainment 3.0, a next-generation IPTV platform, which offers a host of interactivity and customization options, and enables the quick and easy integration of third-party applications.

The Home Entertainment 3.0 (HE 3.0) offers an open environment that will allow KPU to customize its offerings and encourage third-party developers to create their own rich media and Web 2.0 applications that integrate with the operator’s IPTV system quickly and cost effectively. The contract scope also includes professional services.

KPU is a municipally owned Alaskan telecommunications company founded in 1935 to bring telecommunications service to Ketchikan, Alaska. KPU delivers some of the most advanced communications products available in the marketplace, including high-definition digital television, video on demand, extensive local television content, broadband internet, business communication systems and local phone service. KPU offers services over an active fiber to the home network capable of 1 Gigabit per second speeds, in addition to it’s copper based network.