Passionate about reaching young digital audiences and providing them with the best sports and entertainment content, Connect Broadband, number one broadband and fixed line service provider in Punjab, has partnered with India’s leading streaming platform, Hotstar.
1. Connect Broadband collaborates with –“Hotstar”- to provide Hotstar
Premium access to customers
Customers can enjoy access to Hotstar’s Premium library for content like ICC Champions Trophy, latest
American shows, Hollywood and Bollywood blockbusters, Indian TV shows and Hotstar Originals at
Rs.199/ month
Chandigarh, June 05, 2017: Passionate about reaching young digital audiences and providing them
with the best sports and entertainment content, Connect Broadband, number one broadband and
fixed line service provider in Punjab, has partnered with India’s leading streaming platform, Hotstar.
2. Hotstar, the country’s largest video-on-demand platform, brings movies, TV shows and live sports
content from the largest studios and tournaments in the world, right to the user’s device. The Hotstar
content library carries over 50,000 hours of TV shows and movies in 8 languages with titles ranging
from popular blockbusters to award winning TV and cinema.
This exclusive partnership with Connect Broadband lets users access Hotstar premium at just Rs.199/
month.
Talking about the collaboration with Hotstar, Mr. Arvind Bali, CEO, Connect Broadband, said, “We
have taken a very promising step by collaborating video streaming platform Hotstar. Our collaboration
with Hotstar is an endeavor to continue entertaining our customers and to give them quality content
on affordable costs. Our customers have great trust in our services and this collaboration is an attempt
to give them something extraordinary. We want our customers to have complete trust in our services
when it comes to content, speed, connectivity and entertainment”
About Connect Broadband
CONNECT is a part of Videocon Group and is a pan India ISP Licensee with market leadership in Punjab
Telecom Circle, which consists of Punjab, the Union Territory of Chandigarh and Panchkula. The
Company also provides a full gamut of telecommunication services, which includes voice telephony,
both Wireline and fixed wireless, Internet services, broadband data services and a range of value
added service viz., Centrex, leased lines, voice mail and video conferencing. Connect has recently
expanded its coverage footprint with launch of data services in Haryana and Himachal Pradesh.
About Hotstar
Hotstar is India’s largest premium streaming platform with more than 100,000 hours of drama and
movies in 8 languages, and coverage of every major global sporting event. Launched in early 2015, it is
one of India’s most downloaded apps and has attracted more than 200 million followers on the back of
a highly evolved video streaming technology and high attention to quality of experience across devices
and platforms. The Hotstar Premium service showcases the best line up of TV shows, movies and
sports from around the world, including Emmy Award winning shows like Game of Thrones, Veep and
Silicon Valley, and live sporting tournaments including Premier League and F1 all at a monthly
subscription fee of Rs. 199. Hotstar appropriated the top spot on iTunes as Apple TV’s App of the Year for
India 2016.