
Finally, 3G is Coming to India on 11 th December ‘08
Producers Guild confers honour to MTNL Chief RSP Sinha
We are just a fortnight away from the real experience; on the World Telecom Day 11th of December, Indians will have the pleasure of 3G ; as our beloved Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh will press the Green-Switch to usher the latest in mobility ! As we're now the fastest growing market for Telecom in the World, it is high time that volume growth would be crowned with proper Value Unlocking. My Time mobile TV multi-channel bouquet will now bloom to full glory riding on the high speed mobile delivery platform over the 3G as the ultimate fulfilment of TBSL's content driven convergence experience for all the mobile users. As the preferred and pioneering Content provider to MTNL, Time Broadband Services alongwith its major Global consortium of Value Added Services partners will start the '3G–TV' effort on-cue from the National thought leader, who has deftly lead our Nation into the new Orbit. The content industry welcomes the 3G initiatives and congratulates the Government of India for this landmark achievement.
The guild has selected among major users of digital content, Mr. RSP Sinha for the honour of conferring “Media Patron of the year 2008” for IPTV and 3G launch by MTNL. Under Mr. Sinha's able leadership, MTNL has absorbed many of the new technologies for core and access network upgradation to support both their fixed line and mobile services; involving some of the best technology providers of the World. Leveraging upon the market growth during past two decades, MTNL today is poised for a big leap ahead for serving its 8 million customer base in Delhi & Mumbai metro markets.
“We are extremely grateful to the content creation community for their enthusiastic co-operation and whole hearted participation in the new paradigm of technocommercial relationship with the front end Telecom partners. Revenue sharing unlocks the key of business development and rapid scaling of ARPU [Average Revenue Per User]; that helps everybody in the call completion value chain by due involvement in the end to end delivery cycle. The Indian creative fraternity has proved its greatness once again by playing this constructive role and we at Time Broadband are pleased to integrate the complex compatibility between content and connectivity. We have with a lot of tailored developmental efforts, achieved Global benchmark while partnering with International Operators; we are geared up to immediately offer 'Plug-n-play over the 3G platform' without any delay” observed Mrs. Suja ta Dev – CEO & MD of TBSPL and thanked the members of the Guild [The Film & Television Guild of India] for their continued support to My Time, which is now embarking into the 3G-TV Format. This initiative of 3GPP launch is Welcomed by My Time, the only the 3G ready content platform of India .
After having succeeded in a very authoritative manner on the conventional delivery of content in the broadcast mode and with the recent adaptation of digital delivery of Digital Cinema and Direct-To-Home, the Indian media production community of Film & television has again got their mind on the progression roadmap to captivate the new media opportunities. The active support and strategic orientation by the thought leaders would pave the way for very large revenue coming in the way of Indian Content Industry in near future over the 3G mobile platform. At the same time My Time IPTV effort would add significant revenue to the industry as the content gets commercially licensed on multiple geographies. The joint marketing effort between Producers' Guild and Time Broadband has been underway for participating in major Global forum which have now started moving into contract / license arrangements with many operators.
About Time Broadband Group
Time Broadband, being the prominent new member of the Guild has partnered with the leading content creation sources for Globally promoting Indian creativity and leveraging the revenue opportunities. Time Broadband, is funded by Dubai Ventures and has achieved the financial closure via 2nd round of foreign direct investment for ambitious pan-India IPTV rollout; has been incorporated by "TIME" Group of 4 Promoters, comprising of research analyst, content specialist, financial expert and techno-futurist. Time has been in fore-front of Indian media for past 20 years as Producer of Feature-film, Tele-serials and Music creation, by a core team of seasoned professionals; having combined experience of 1200 man-years in the emerging media world. TBSPL was the 1st Indian entity to have ventured into the opportunity associated with technology platform of convergence, between telecommunication and entertainment, through the right application of digital information technology in Indian context. The Global dynamics of transformation witnessed in the past few years have been the inspiration of our company; to act as pioneering Indian entity in the content delivery networking activity over four screens.
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Mr. Amit Dev on +919899977789 or email on amit@tbsl.tv your queries and business plan !