GLOBAL ACCLAIM FOR 'MYTIME' CONTENT AS
WORLD'S FIRST MOBILE BOUQUET IS LAUNCHED

New Avatar of Digital TV by TIME BROADBAND offering "IPTV over Mobile 3G phone"  by leveraging all the power & the glory of leading global Consortium partners soon. A Basket full of Digital Audio Visual Delight for the Indian IPTV Customers is promised as Time Broadband brings in multiplicity of global content over broadband in Indian and South East Asian partners Telecom Mobile TV bouquet, first of its kind in the world as acknowledged widely by Telecom convergent trade!

As the leading KPO and VAS provider entity of India , Time Broadband Services has announced the new bundle of exclusively developed media content for the Indian IPTV over Mobile and also on the Broadband customer-base, through tie-ups with few major entities to leverage its offering. While talking to media, Co-founder and CTO of TBSL, Mr. Amit Dev was happy to sincerely share the corporate efforts towards accomplishment of the study conducted for Mapping of the audience aspirations, “few things which we are hopeful will fulfil the voyage in terms of Indian customer offerings over IPTV; we have done extensive audience research and we understood that the basic requirements and higher aspiration of the IPTV audience are largely unfulfilled. We have recently tied up with domestic and international content partners, many of which are members of Guild IMI and Assocham and we have also signed recently with IGNOU for Educational content and ISKCON for devotional content.” In order to do this in near future with the Launch of the trial in NCR, Time Broadband proposes to bring in the visual expertise of few leading partners who have the unique dimensions.
 
Most recent achievement of the creative team at Time Broadband has been of having Shortlisted "as the top 3" in world at MIPCOM, Cannes, France; "Bollywood Hot Gossip", screened on the 13th of October '08; one of the Worlds biggest media festival of original content, selected out of 1000 entries from all over the World.

“Based on the survey conducted in the key Indian markets, in various age groups, we saw the need in customer aspirations and were inspired to uniquely create, customize and design content for watching on mobile handsets. We will continue to bring such masterpieces in future and will arrive at most of the Global Festivals with all our unique creative offerings” claimed Mr. Irfan Khan Chief Creative officer of Time Broadband, over the Phone from MIPCOM; who leads a 30 member creative team. Mr. Khan have wealth of quality experience working in the TV channels, film production houses & animation services in Hollywood and Bollywood. The only other entry from Asia for this distinctive screening category is by Celestial pictures of Hong Kong ; shows the leadership presented by Mr. Khan.

With the NCR launch of the comprehensive IPTV trial in India soon, TBSL wishes to bring the new fulfillment factor in the IPTV domain and hope to match the aspirations of the audience who have been deprived of such high end elements in the promised IP based Content Delivery service and have sought their audience for participation in its trial to really make IPTV a throbbing entity in Indian convergent multimedia service domain to support telecom convergent operators in the country and all over SAARC region.

ABOUT TBSPL

Formed in early 2005 as a special purpose vehicle initiating IPTV services in the Indian telecom domain, TIME Broadband Services Pvt. Ltd. (TBSPL) is the Operational subsidiary entity under TIME Digital Media group with funding from Dubai Ventures. Time has been in forefront of the Indian media for the past 20 years as a Producer of Feature films, Tele-serials and Music creation, by a core team of seasoned creative professionals; having combined experience of 900 man-years in the emerging media world. TBSPL was the first Indian entity to have ventured into convergence technologies, 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 the company to act as pioneering Indian entity in the content delivery networking activity.

The target of the Group has been a combination of H.264 AVC as station format riding on IPV6 based IPTV on broadband platform, which received global appreciation for the emergence of Interactive and Personalized services for TV & PC screens. The co-promoters were instrumental in bringing together a global consortium of technical experts and integration companies who conducted trials as soon as the ADSL2+ broadband backbone was laid by MTNL in Mumbai. The success of the first trial was recorded on 14 January 2005 in front of an invited broadcast audience and telecom dignitaries from five states via video conference. Leveraging on this success, the core-team of TBSPL is close to achieving the distinction of being the pioneer service architect for implementing IPTV over Mobility platform! The IPTV Package “MY TIME” of TBSL was duly launched on 20 December 2006 with the nation's first-ever 100 Digital-channels over multi-cast delivery mode with Trick-play capability, affording the front-end Telecom customers to get Digital empowerment on both their Television and Computer screens. As the most powerful corporate entity in the convergent domain, TBSL is keen to harness the power of ICT with all IPR deal on collaborative basis, having the KPO services ability for rapid Globalization of Indian media supremacy in the continental markets.

Sujata Dev
Managing Director & CEO and Co founder

With over 14 years of experience as an entrepreneur and media advisor, her vision of seamless fusion of entertainment and telecom spurred her to introduce IPTV in India. She envisions maximizing entertainment of the consumers' choice during their disposable time. She terms this experience ‘Flexible Entertainment'. Eternally exploring new horizons, she intends altering home entertainment transcending across generations from Fixed Point Chart (FPC) to Flexible Program Choice'. A Masters in Statistics from ‘Indian Statistical Institute', Kolkata, PGD in Industrial & Applied Psychology from UCLA, and a Professional Certificate for WIPO/ICC project management London , she specialized in IPR & Transactions.