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Internode and iiNet are two of the Internet service providers that have confirmed their collaboration with Fetch TV, an internet TV provider, to provide low-priced pay-TV  to their broadband customers' TV sets.

As reported by The Australian, Fetch TV, which is backed by T. Ananda Krishnan, a Malaysian billionaire, planned to sell its video content by working with a group of smaller ISPs.

The service will include a collection of budget-priced pay-TV channels with English as well as foreign-language shows, a number of on-demand content plus the personal video recorder for between $20 and $25 added to the broadband connection fee.

The service will be competing with:  pay-TV providers Foxtel and Austar, Telstra's newly-unveiled Tbox, Seven's TiVo box, and other downloadable content providers.
Greg Bader, chief technology officer of iiNet, said that with Fetch TV, the company will offer a product that will be big as it would change Australian TV consumption.

He said Fetch holds the rights to a very attractive number of content that other ISPs will offer to their respective customers and their collective efforts will enable the group to corner a significant segment of the market.

John Lindsay, the carrier relations manager of Internode also confirmed the intention of his company to work with Fetch, pending some contractual and technical issues.

Scott Lorson, a former Optus executive, has been appointed Fetch TV chief executive.