Idea and Vodafone Merger: Big in the Telco Industry

The inevitable is happening. Even as Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd readies to launch its mobile services on a commercial basis from April 1, the second and the third largest operators – Vodafone India and Idea Cellular – have finally come together to occupy the number one slot in the world’s second largest telecom market by number of subscribers. The combined entity will be India’s largest in terms of revenues, absolute profits, subscriber base and several other parameters.

The combined entity will have an annual turnover of Rs 81,400 crores and around 400 million subscribers. It will have 35 percent customer market share and 41 percent revenue market share. As against this, Bharti has annual mobile revenues of around Rs 56,000 crores and 270 million mobile subscribers and. All this gives Bharti a customer market share of 24 percent and a revenue market share of 28 percent.

When it comes to the all-important spectrum holding, based on weighted average of a circle’s total revenues and levelling paired and unpaired spectrum, Vodafone-Idea will have 43 Mhz of spectrum followed by Bharti’s 34 Mhz.

But the real fight is not really between the combined entity and the numero uno so far -- Bharti – that they will displace. It is between the rest and the challenger that is Reliance Jio. The merger is a natural outcome of the market forces that the Reliance Industries subsidiary has unleashed – one that has brought data tariffs to one-fourth of their levels only six months ago and has made voice services almost free.

The anxiety of the incumbents was understandable. After all, if the fears needed any corroboration, Reliance Jio acquired 100 mln users in 170 days – a world record in its own right. Bharti too is in the process of acquiring the Indian unit of Norway’s Telenor.

No wonder Thomas Mathew, Director General of the industry lobby Cellular Operators Association of India, feels the tariff war in data services is far from over.

“Tariff wars in voice are over. That will happen around data. Pressure on data will continue,” he told Moneycontrol.

According to research firm IDC, the total mobile services market revenue in India is expected to touch USD 37 billion in 2017.

It’s rare to see an operator – in this case one that is yet to launch its services commercially as written earlier --  shaking up the market in a manner like this. But it has happened. The challenger is setting the terms in the market.

Article Source: Money Control
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YuppTV unveils originals, bringing unconventional storytelling and cinematic brilliance to the digital space

Announces partnerships with prominent directors and production houses from the movie industry to provide high quality digital content.

Hyderabad, 16^th March 2017: Mr. Uday Reddy, Founder and CEO of YuppTV along with YuppTV’s Brand Ambassador “Superstar Mahesh Babu” has launched YuppTV Originals, the OTT platform’s foray into original content production. Exploring concepts beyond cinema, YuppTV Originals is set to bring forth unconventional story telling in collaboration with the top talent from the movie industry. This new content will be available in episodic format for the digital audience, exclusively on YuppTV’s platform.

At the launch, Uday Reddy, Founder and CEO of YuppTV said, “We disrupted the entertainment sector with technology by launching YuppTV in 2006. Now with YuppTV Originals, we aim to disrupt the content space, following the needs of our evolving audience, and our vision of providing high-quality engaging content. Besides, YuppTV Originals will empower the content creators by providing direct access to the audience and thereby streamlining distribution. I’d further extend heartiest welcome to our associates from the film fraternity, ensuring optimum growth for the content ecosystem.”''

Speaking on the occasion, Tollywood Superstar Mahesh Babu said, “I congratulate YuppTV for this novel concept and associating with big names in the industry. I am confident that ‘YuppTV Originals’ will have a wide reach, and recommend artists and visionaries from the industry to make use of this opportunity to showcase their creative pursuits and connect instantly with the internet audience.”

YuppTV Original’s initial focus to be on regional content in episodic format, while also making endeavors for Feature Film Production. To produce their first few series, YuppTV has associated with prominent production houses such as I-candy creation, Early Morning Tales – a division of Vijayanthi Movies, TrendLoud – The digital arm of Vision Times, Madhura Entertainment and Tamada Media.

Commenting on the partnership, popular Tollywood Director Deva Katta -  said “Originals provide immense creative freedom for the evolving talent in the industry. As YuppTV provides a direct reach to the audience it will also help us pool in fresh talent and bring their creativity to the spotlight. Myself, my partner Krishna Vijay and our company iCandy Creations is delighted to be part of Originals and look forward to a prolonged partnership in producing engaging new-age content.” 

YuppTV Originals’ first mini-series, Endukila, presented by Deva Katta’ iCandy Creations, written and directed by Laxman Karya will be launched during Ugadi, followed by another exciting series produced by Swapna Dutt’s Early Morning Tales-a division of Vijayanthi Movies and director supervision by Nandini Reddy. Catering to global audiences, YuppTV is overcoming the language barrier by including subtitles and will be dubbed in other languages. YuppTV is further calling out the talent in the industry to come on-board and become part of this digital evolution.

That aspiring content creators and artists can reach out to us at originals@yupptv.com

YuppTV is one of the world’s largest internet-based TV and On-demand service provider for South Asian content, offering more than 250+ TV channels, 5000+ Movies and 100+ TV Shows in 14 languages. YuppTV, recently received funding from Emerald Media, a Pan-Asian platform established by leading global investment firm KKR for investing in the media and entertainment sector, wherein Emerald Media acquired a significant minority stake in the company for US$50mn. Emerald Media is led by industry veterans Rajesh Kamat and Paul Aiello, supported by an experienced team of investment and operating executives. The platform primarily focuses on providing growth capital to media, entertainment and digital media companies. YuppTV had earlier raised its Series A round of funding from Poarch Creek Indian Tribe of Alabama.

YuppTV has 25000 hours of entertainment content catalogued in its library, while nearly 2500 hours of new on-demand content is added to the YuppTV platform every day. YuppTV offers Live TV and Catch-Up TV technology. It has recently launched YuppFlix, a movie on demand streaming service for Expat Market and YuppTV Bazaar an online marketplace for the premium content curator. YuppTV is currently ranked #1 Internet Pay TV platform for Indians living abroad and the largest Internet TV platform from premium content availability in India. YuppTV is the most downloaded Indian SmartTV app and it also boasts of 8 million mobile downloads with 4.0 user rating.

Visit www.yupptv.com for more information.

Article Source: http://blog.yupptv.com/2017/03/yupptv-unveils-YuppTVOriginals.html

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Manipur Election 2017 Live: Highest Voter Turn out Till Date in Assembly Elections 2017

 

Over 84.8  percent voter turnout was recorded in the first phase of polling in Manipur in 38 constituencies spread across six districts in the hill state.  The second and final phase of polling will be held on 8 March.
87% turnout recorded in Imphal East. This is the highest ever for the constituency.

Manipur the north east state has a major concern issue right now, economic blockade created by the United Naga Council. PM Modi during their rally told the manipur people that this is a small issue which can be resloved within 4 months but Congress despite ruling over 15 years could not help the people in removing the blockade.

Get Assembly Elections 2017 Live Updates on YuppTV. 

Battleground Uttar Pradesh: Uttar Pradesh Elections 2017 Live

Uttar Pradesh is one of the largest state and one of the most populous state of the Indian Republic. Not only being one of the largest state, it has been regarded as an important state in the Indian politics due to its population and the seats it reserves in the assembly (403).

It has always been important for the political parties to reserve more seats in this constituency because the UP voters never remain loyal to a party for more than one election. The BJP party after announcing the Note ban in India are eager to get more seats in this part of India to secure their coming future in the Indian Politics.

Other than that, the ruling party (Samajwadi Party) also expect to get back in action for which they have forged an alliance with the Congress party too. Mayawati of Bahujan Samaj Party is also thinking of getting back in power through the Muslim and Dalits. It has become a battle ground in the northern part of India starting from 11th of February and 11th march being its end date.

The parties who conquers the voters of UP result to be the one conquering the whole Indian Republic. These elections would be the decider which party gets to remain in the race for the upcoming 2019 elections and which becomes the challenger.While PM Modi is influencing the UP people with his witty talks and taking dig at Rahul Gandhi and Akhilesh Yadav for their failure in state development, low profile Dimple Yadav, wife of UP CM Akhilesh becoming popular day by day with her soft spoken words and attitude. She is the current star campaigner for samajwadi party.

The Up elections have been distributed in 7 phases, starting from the 11th of February. The first phase was spread over 15 districts which resulted in approximately 64.22% of votes while the second phase brought better results than the first phase and resulted in 65.5% of votes. The third phase the votes were 61.16% and in the fourth phase also got 61% of votes. In the fifth phase, around 57.36% of votes have been reported. The voting has not been as expected but the end result would only reveal the political future of the country.

Get live updates and UP elections results at http://www.yupptv.com/election-results-2017.html

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