Mar 2015 Financial News

TSTT signs deal with premier Bollywood content provider

Mar 05, 2015

HYDERABAD, INDIA—YuppTV, the world’s leading over-the-top (OTT) content player for South Asian Content and Telecommunications Services of T&T (TSTT), a full telecommunications service provider, have signed an agreement to deliver OTT Bollywood Content to subscribers in T&T.

Through the partnership, YuppTV will provide a full technology solution to TSTT to bring premier Bollywood content to the people of T&T.

Vinood Radge Coomar, executive vice president Residential Services & Delivery at TSTT, said: “With this milestone, TSTT has taken a great leap forward towards our ultimate aim: to make high-quality entertainment to as many people as possible.

“Partnership with YuppTV will provide to people of Trinidad and Tobago premier Bollywood content anytime anywhere. We are very proud of this achievement.”

Uday Reddy, CEO YuppTV said: “We are thrilled to take YuppTV to Trinidad and Tobago through this unique partnership with TSTT and look forward to offering a host of pioneering and innovative OTT services to TSTT and the people of this historic sovereign state.

“The partnership is an exciting development for us at YuppTV and we thank TSTT for placing their faith in us.”

Reddy founded YuppTV in 2006 with a dream to create a company that converges technologies in providing a virtual home based access to Entertainment, Information and Communication anytime, anywhere, across the globe.

The company’s mission is to make it simple and instant for broadcasters to deliver live TV and VOD anytime and anywhere in the world to any internet-enabled device.

YuppTV also presents itself as a reliable, resilient and scalable platform for broadcasters and content providers to reach target audiences globally.

This enables broadcasters to focus on content creation without worrying about the technical aspects of broadcasting.

TSTT’s OTT service will be unique where subscribers can watch premium Bollywood channels live as well as 7-day Catchup on multiple devices with a single subscription.

Source:
Trinidad Guardian, A22
Thursday March 5, 2015