Thu, 28 Mar 2024 Today's Paper

SLT to launch “OTT entertainment platform” in Sri Lanka

By

22 April 2016 12:00 am - 0     - {{hitsCtrl.values.hits}}

A A A

Hungama Digital Media Entertainment’s Siddharth Roy, Lahiru Wickramasinghe and SLT’s Dileepa Wijesundera inking the agreement 

 

Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) announced that the company is about to launch a streaming service via the first of its kind, Sri Lanka’s OTT (Over-The-Top) platform to make entertainment options available online to Sri Lankans.
 SLT being the leading ICT solutions provider in the country partnered with the largest and a pioneer in digital media entertainment in South Asia, Hungama Digital Media Entertainment (Pvt) Limited and its local partner Evoke International (Pvt) Limited. 
This partnership will provide SLT broadband customers with high quality video streaming, music downloads and gaming facilities as never experienced before in Sri Lanka, bringing a cinema experience right to the home.
This is the first time in Sri Lanka where a service for video streaming and gaming has been launched in such a magnitude. This landmark agreement will mean that customers in Sri Lanka will now be able to access a vast collection of new Hollywood, Bollywood, Tamil, Theligu and Sinhala movies, songs as well as video games at attractive prices, all from the comfort of their homes. 
This will ensure that customers are provided access to a large database of the latest releases in songs as well as just premiered foreign and local movies with the highest quality ever experienced for video streaming and music downloading. Through promoting this kind of entertainment content locally, all citizens of the country are offered the opportunity to enjoy a better online entertainment experience after completing the project.
In the first phase of the introduction of this OTT service to Sri Lanka, SLT Broadband customers are offered online entertainment options with a subscription fee. Services will be expanded to Mobitel’s mobile customers and PEO TV customers by adding the feature to the PEO Set Top Box and thereafter, to all other internet users in Sri Lanka phase by phase. SLT’s move to partner with Hungama’s “over-the-top” entertainment content means SLT broadband consumers can watch these content with a high speed broadband internet connection or IPTV connection or a Mobile connection – it is a significant milestone for Sri Lankan consumers. SLT intend to allow its OTT entertainment service subscribers to access content on mobile devices through a 
mobile app.
Commenting on this latest partnership, Dileepa Wijesundera, Group CEO of SLT said, “Our customers are already experiencing world class personalized television entertainment through our PEO TV service. Through this important partnership with Hungama, we wish to add more value to our customers and provide them with high quality, world class entertainment content at their fingertips. We are certain that this will totally redefine their entertainment experience.”
Siddharth Roy, CEO of Hungama Digital Media Entertainment Pvt. Ltd, the largest Indian digital content distributor and aggregator said, “We are thrilled about this partnership with SLT the front runner of telecommunications and evoke the market leader of the local content distribution in digital platforms. We are expecting to launch new entertainment products in Sri Lanka in the near future.”
Lahiru Wickramasinghe, CEO of Evoke International Pvt Ltd said, “We are excited to Partner with Hungama India to provide this service to SLT, the ICT leader in Sri Lanka, as it will enable us to touch the lives of the people in Sri Lanka by providing Entertainment from across the globe to their fingertips.”The agreement signing took place at SLT premises. Group CEO of SLT, Dileepa Wijesundera signed on behalf of SLT while Siddharth Roy, CEO of Hungama signed on behalf of Hungama and Lahiru Wickramasinghe, CEO of Evoke, on behalf 
of Evoke.

 


Order Gifts and Flowers to Sri Lanka. See Kapruka's top selling online shopping categories such as Toys, Grocery, Kids Toys, Birthday Cakes, Fruits, Chocolates, Clothing and Electronics. Also see Kapruka's unique online services such as Money Remittence,Astrology, Courier/Delivery, Medicine Delivery and over 700 top brands. Also get products from Amazon & Ebay via Kapruka Gloabal Shop into Sri Lanka

  Comments - 0

Order Gifts and Flowers to Sri Lanka. See Kapruka's top selling online shopping categories such as Toys, Grocery, Kids Toys, Birthday Cakes, Fruits, Chocolates, Clothing and Electronics. Also see Kapruka's unique online services such as Money Remittence,Astrology, Courier/Delivery, Medicine Delivery and over 700 top brands. Also get products from Amazon & Ebay via Kapruka Gloabal Shop into Sri Lanka

Add comment

Comments will be edited (grammar, spelling and slang) and authorized at the discretion of Daily Mirror online. The website also has the right not to publish selected comments.

Reply To:

Name - Reply Comment





Order Gifts and Flowers to Sri Lanka. See Kapruka's top selling online shopping categories such as Toys, Grocery, Kids Toys, Birthday Cakes, Fruits, Chocolates, Clothing and Electronics. Also see Kapruka's unique online services such as Money Remittence,Astrology, Courier/Delivery, Medicine Delivery and over 700 top brands. Also get products from Amazon & Ebay via Kapruka Gloabal Shop into Sri Lanka

VAT increase: SOUNDs death knell for publishers, readers

Though the Government imposed VAT (Value Added Tax) on vegetables and other e

How female change-makers are driving Sri Lanka’s energy saving platform

Saving energy has become more of a responsibility than a habit in today’s c

A dull Ramadan awaits Muslims amidst the Soaring Cost of Living

In the coming days, Muslims across the world will welcome the Holy Month of R

New wildlife underpass to curtail HEC

As of February 2024, Sri Lanka lost another 38 elephants as a result of the H