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OTT player Lukup applies for MSO licence
NEW DELHI: Bangalore-based over-the-top (OTT) player Lukup Media has applied for a Multi system Operator (MSO) licence primarily to encourage consumers having a digital set top box to use OTT services.
At present there is lower-than-expected demand for OTT service but the company expects that after acquiring MSO and Internet Service Provider (ISP) licences, it will be able to expand its OTT services. The main reason for lower demand of OTT service is that customers who already own a digital TV STB do not wish to pay extra for OTT services.
Last year, the company had started signing contracts with local cable operators and has signed with 200 operators with a total base of 1.8 million homes.
Lukup Media founder CEO Kallol Bora said that the company was looking at investing a sum of Rs 100 – 120 crore to roll out its services in first eight cities.
The company will launch its bundled services in three phases. While the first phase will cover Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad and Bengaluru, the second phase will cover Delhi NCR and Gujarat. In the third phase, the company will cover 47 cities with over one million population.
Lukup Media has also signed a deal with Widevine for integrating DRM solution. Widevine’s DRM solution provides the capability to license, distribute and protect playback of content on any consumer device.
Lukup can provide now access of protected content to its customers. The content including movies, music and television shows can be accessed to any device even in congested networks.
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LTM to upgrade India’s tax analytics platform with Nvidia AI
BlueVerse platform to drive real-time insights and digital governance
MUMBAI: LTM, formerly LTIMindtree and awaiting shareholder approval for its name change, has teamed up with Nvidia to modernise India’s national tax analytics platform, backing the government’s seven-year Insight 2.0 mandate.
The collaboration will support the Central Board of Direct Taxes in overhauling tax administration through scalable artificial intelligence and advanced analytics. Under the programme, LTM will deploy a secure cloud environment powered by Nvidia’s AI infrastructure to enable real-time insights and simplified data workloads.
At the heart of the initiative is LTM’s proprietary BlueVerse platform, which will act as the intelligence layer across the tax system. The platform is designed to integrate AI across operations, powering features such as a smart citizen portal, automated campaign management, enhanced case workflows and AI-driven helpdesk support.
The overhaul aims to strengthen governance, curb revenue leakages, improve compliance and deliver a smoother experience for taxpayers: a long-standing pain point in India’s tax administration.
“This collaboration brings together Nvidia’s AI capabilities and our BlueVerse platform to build a transparent, resilient and citizen-friendly tax system at scale,” said LTM chief delivery officer Gururaj Deshpande.
Nvidia vice-president of data centre GPU business Yogesh Agrawal, said accelerated computing and full-stack AI are unlocking new efficiencies for public-sector modernisation. “The integration enables secure, high-performance and scalable digital governance for a programme of national importance,” he said.
For LTM, the project reinforces its push to position itself as a partner in large-scale digital governance, as governments increasingly turn to AI-led platforms to modernise public services.
