MUMBAI: Al Jazeera Network has launched its English language global news service on the Austar Pay TV platform in Australia that will start functioning on 15 November.

The move will expand Al Jazeera English‘s distribution reach to over 180 million households globally.
 
Al Jazeera English will be joining 40 other channels available in the Austar starter package that has a subscriber base of 739,000 throughout regional Australia currently.

Said Al Jazeera Director of Global Distribution Phil Lawrie, "We‘re excited by the fact that this launch helps carry our channel to a global distribution reach of over 180 million households - a particularly notable statistic in that we have now added 100 million homes to Al Jazeera‘s distribution in the three years since the channel‘s launch." 
 
Added Austar CEO John Porter, "With the addition of Al Jazeera English to our Starter Package, Australians will now be able to enjoy a wide and diverse range of international news viewpoints and discourses."