New | Hutchison Telecom and Google team up to bring more OTT content with Chromecast

Hutchison Telecommunications Hong Kong, the city’s second-largest wireless network operator, has teamed up with Google to introduce its digital media streaming player Chromecast, which promises to bring more over-the-top online content to local consumers.

The company, a subsidiary of billionaire Li Ka-shing’s CK Hutchison Holdings, is the first telecommunications service provider to roll out the second-generation of this popular device in Hong Kong.

“Only an integrated telecommunications provider such as Hutchison Telecom, which operates both fixed-line and mobile businesses, has the capability to bundle the new device with various offerings,” company chief operating officer Jennifer Tan Yuen-chun said at the launch on Wednesday.

It marked the latest OTT-related network partnership of Hutchison Telecom after its recent alliance with Hong Kong broadcaster TVB, with its “myTV SUPER” mobile app.

Tan said in February that the company was committed to becoming the platform of choice for new OTT content providers in Hong Kong.

That Chromecast deal further raises the stakes in the battle for online content viewership in the city.

Local telecommunications and media giant PCCW, which operates pay-television market leader NowTV, introduced last quarter Viu OTT, a platform that shows South Korean and Japanese content.