Beximco Communication (RealVU)

2017: Sale of a share of GS Group in JV Beximco Communication

On February 15, 2017 the investment and industrial GS Group holding announced sale of the share in the Beximco Communication joint venture operating in Bangladesh under the RealVU brand. Thereby the holding successfully completed an investment cycle of the project on creation of the country's first paid operator of satellite TV. Beximco Communication Ltd will continue to operate the broadcasting equipment and infrastructure created and integrated by GS Group.

"For GS Group creation of the RealVU project, the first paid satellite TV of the operator in Bangladesh, became really unique experience. We for the first time offered access to digital television to residents of the country with the population more than 165 million people where earlier only radio and low-quality digital cable TV was available. The holding acted as the investor, the supplier and integrator of own technological solutions. RealVU became the second international telebroadcasting project of the national level in which our developments are used" — the director of external relations of department of the foreign broadcasting GS Group projects Dolgopolsky Sergey noted.

2016: Start of the Bangladesh's first network of digital broadcasting all over the country

The RealVU project was created in partnership with the Bengalese diversified conglomerate BEXIMCO. The GS Group holding acted as the investor and provided delivery and integration of own hardware-software solutions.

The first national RealVU DTH platform which provided high-quality digital broadcasting in all territory of Bangladesh was started in April, 2016. The operator offers 112 TV channels in SD-and HD quality, among them there are international channels in English, the Indian TV-content, popular in the country, and the canals with local content manufactured in Bangladesh. Digital Set-top boxes of development GS Group meet needs of modern TV viewers: the PVR smart functions (record of broadcasting) and TimeShift (the postponed viewing) and also the electronic program teleguide (EPG) are available to users.

RealVU is the second foreign broadcasting project started with direct participation of GS Group. From 2012 to 2016 the holding successfully implemented the project on creation of the first national platform of the digital radio TV of One TV in the Kingdom of Cambodia.