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  • OneOTT Intertainment CEO Yugal Kishore Sharma moves on

    OneOTT Intertainment CEO Yugal Kishore Sharma moves on

    Mumbai: OneOTT Intertainment (OIL) chief executive officer Yugal Kishore Sharma has chosen to move on after a successful six-year assignment. OneOTT Intertainment is the broadband subsidiary of Nxtdigital.

    Sharma will pursue new ventures in the field of sports and e-sports and nurture Hindustan FC, a football club he has been associated with for several years, said the statement. 

    Sharma has led and built up the broadband business of the media group in India’s fourth-largest private ISP (internet service provider) with over one million subscribers. A telecom industry veteran, Sharma has been instrumental in driving OneOTT Intertainment and building up the various verticals, especially the innovative and highly successful ISP strategic partnership aggregator model.

    “Yugal has played a pivotal role in the significant growth of OIL through his radical thinking, innovative strategies and evolving business models over the years,” said OneOTT Intertainment chairman AK Das. “Today, OIL is a highly respected brand across 150 cities and towns with a very high quality of service, with customer centricity at its core. Much of that credit is attributed to Yugal’s leadership from the front, propelling ONE Broadband into India’s top four private ISPs. We take this opportunity to thank him for his contribution to the growth of the company and wish him all the very best as he pursues his new ventures.”

  • NXTDigital’s broadband subsidiary OneOTT surpasses 600K subscribers

    NXTDigital’s broadband subsidiary OneOTT surpasses 600K subscribers

    KOLKATA: NXTDigital’s broadband subsidiary OneOTT intertainment Ltd (OIL) has surpassed 100,000 home broadband subscriber additions in the fourth quarter of the financial year 2020-21.

    According to a press statement issued by the company, OIL has attained a momentum of more than 1,000 subscribers-a-day on its way to crossing the 600,000+ mark, to retain its position in the top five private ISPs in India.

    OIL CEO Yugal Kishore Sharma believes that the dependence on internet has never been so high. “Internet use cases have moved beyond browsing and social networking to work-from-home (WFH), on-line education, OTT entertainment and gaming, online-shopping, online-health, e-governance and others. This requires broadband connections to deliver real ‘high speed’ to support multiple users, devices and sessions with consistency and near 100 per cent availability.”

     OIL has implemented unique business models to facilitate its rapid growth. The concept of “DST” or direct sales team has now evolved into digital sales teams, where the company is supplementing the traditional ‘push’ method of sales with digital mediums.

    On strategy for growth, Sharma shares, “We have imbibed learnings from the evolution of the telecom sector, not just in India, but globally – and we’ve applied a lot of those learnings to our own business model to ensure robustness and sustainability.” OIL has in fact achieved 42X growth over the last five years – with commensurate growth in revenues.

    Additionally, the broadband provider has adapted to the surge in consumption by doubling its internet capacity on the supply side without passing the additional cost to its customers to maintain customer experience.

    NXTDigital MD & CEO Vynsley Fernandes remarked, “Team ONE has redefined the business of broadband in India through innovative modelling, getting in the right skillsets and developing a performance centric organisation culture. The results of a focused strategy of OIL as demonstrated is visible in OIL’s consistently raising the bar on Q/Q basis.”

    OIL has also been steadily leveraging the cable television and HITS (Headend-In-The-Sky) subscriber base of NXTDigital – by expanding its footprint across the country.

  • ONEOTT Intertainment Limited wins TelecomLead.com Innovation Leaders award 2019

    ONEOTT Intertainment Limited wins TelecomLead.com Innovation Leaders award 2019

    Mumbai: OneOTTIntertainment Limited (OIL), was awarded the 2019 Innovation leaders award by Telecomlead.com. OIL won this prestigious award for adopting innovative steps for expanding broadband connectivity to under connected population in urban locations, like –connectivity of 50 Hotspots in Dharavi which enabled Internet consumers access 2GB data per day free for 30 days via OIL’s Wi-Fi hotspots.

    Commenting on the occasion, Mr. Yugal Sharma,CEO of ONEOTT iNTERTAINMENT LIMITED said,“We are extremely proud and delighted to receive an awardthatis a testament to our endeavors of providing affordable internet services to our customers.OIL’s purpose is to lead digital inclusion in India by connecting homes & offices online thereby, enriching lives of all our subscribers. This initiative in Dharavi directly aligns to why we exist.’’

    In the first phase of the project,50 Wi-Fi hotspots have been enabled in Dharavi, the largest underserved urban locality in India,powered by OIL’s high-speed internet service, and supported by the Express Wi-Fi by Facebook’s software platform. Anyone, who is present in the Wi-Fi zone can connect to a participating hotspot by registering on the ONE Express Wi-Fi by Facebook sign-up page or by downloading the Express Wi-Fi by Facebook Android App available in the Google Play store.

    OIL also has plans to scale up Wi-Fi deployment to 10,000 Access Points and aims to extend its reach to the other Tier 2 & Tier 3 cities.