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Microscan ropes in Samson Jesudas as Business Head – ISP, Strengthens the focus on Indian ISP Market
MUMBAI: In a move to strengthen the commitment, focus and investments in Indian ISP market, “MICROSCAN” has roped in Samson Jesudas as Business Head to lead the ISP domain in India.
Microscan today provide over 20 premium services in the IT & Telecom Industry. We have scaled new heights to become a preferred service provider for telecom infrastructure and value-added many telecom companies like Tata, Airtel, Vodafone etc.
Samson will be based at Mumbai and will oversee the business development activities for ISP penetration & growth in the Indian ISP market and will report to Sandeep Donde – Founder & MD.
The mission of Microscan is to provide technically-advanced, consistent network and data connectivity solutions through efficiently optimized network architecture. Microscan proudly own extensive self-healing rings that provide redundancy ensuring undisrupted connectivity.
High speed internet is a necessity in the modern day. It is one of the important means of access to the information required for everyday personal and business function. Microscan is an Internet Service Provider which enables a range of cost-effective broadband services ensuring reliability through our 100% fiber optic network. Microscan ensures that you enjoy a high speed and reliable connectivity for all your internet needs. Microscan offers various broadband services with value added features for all our customers under the Microscan and Vovinet brand.
Microscan provides the facility of Bulk bandwidth to ISPs. Local ISPs share the purchased bandwidth among various users to provide internet services to their customers. For such ISPs who look forward to providing their service in a new region or to expand their service area, Microscan offers a Bulk bandwidth option which enables the local ISPs to divide bandwidth to their customers. Various bandwidth requirements for pure internet, blended internet or region-specific internet can be taken care by Microscan’s Bulk bandwidth services.
Microscan also offers premium network interconnection services which facilitates ISPs to peer with major Internet Exchanges (IX) in India like Extreme IX and get inter-connect to all major content providers across globe like Akamai, Limelight, Fastly, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Netflix, Apple etc. Partnering with Microscan facilitates peering solutions for ISPs which envisages business benefits in terms of fastest routes, low-latency and optimal internet bandwidth utilization.
“The Indian Digital Population is booming with an incremental internet penetration in urban and rural sector. This has indeed created a tremendous opportunity in market and Microscan is geared up to serve more customers. We felt the need to strengthen our ISP presence and hence roped in a professional like Samson Jesudas to drive our ISP division. Samson has established goodwill amongst the cable fraternity and will add value in striking profound deals with LCOs thereby ensuring the reach to last mile”, said Sandeep Donde.
Before joining Microscan, Samson was MD & CEO at Hathway Bhavani and EVP @ Hathway cable & datacom. He was also a board member of various Hathway JV companies like GTPL Hathway, Hathway Sonali, Hathway Sai Star, Hathway Rajesh etc. He has also served as a VP @ ZEE Turner ltd. and Regional Manager with Star TV in the past.
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Content India 2026 opens with a copro pitch, a spice evangelist and a £10,000 prize for Indian storytelling
Dish TV and C21Media’s three-day summit puts seven ambitious projects before an international jury, and two walk away with serious development money
MUMBAI: India’s content industry gathered in Mumbai this March for Content India 2026, a three-day summit organised by Dish TV in partnership with C21Media, and it wasted no time making a statement. The event opened with a Copro Pitch that put seven scripted and unscripted television concepts before an international panel of judges, and by the end of it, two projects had walked away with £10,000 each in marketing prize money from C21Media to support development and international promotion.
The jury, comprising Frank Spotnitz, Fiona Campbell, Rashmi Bajpai, Bal Samra and Rachel Glaister, evaluated a shortlist that ranged from a dark Mumbai comedy-drama about mental health (Dirty Minds, created by Sundar Aaron) to a Delhi coming-of-age mystery (Djinn Patrol, by Neha Sharma and Kilian Irwin), a techno-thriller about a teenage gaming prodigy (Kanpur X Satori, by Suchita Bhatia), an investigative crime drama blending mythology and modern thriller (The Age of Kali, by Shivani Bhatija), a documentary on India’s spice heritage (The Masala Quest, hosted by Sarina Kamini), a documentary on competitive gaming (Respawn: India’s Esports Revolution, by George Mangala Thomas and Sangram Mawari), and a reality-horror competition merging gaming and immersive fear (Scary Goose, by Samar Iqbal).
The session was hosted by Mayank Shekhar.
The two winners were Djinn Patrol, backed by Miura Kite, formerly of Participant Media and known for Chinatown and Keep Sweet: Pray & Obey, with Jaya Entertainment, producers of Real Kashmir Football Club, also attached; and The Masala Quest, created and hosted by Sarina Kamini, an Indian-Australian cook, author and self-described “spice evangelist.”
The summit also unveiled the Content India Trends Report, whose findings made for bracing reading. Daoud Jackson, senior analyst at OMDIA, set the tone: “By 2030, online video in India will nearly double the revenue of traditional TV, becoming the main driver of growth.” He noted that in 2025, India produced a quarter of all YouTube videos globally, overtaking the United States, while Indians collectively spend 117 years daily on YouTube and 72 years on Instagram. Traditional subscription TV is declining as free TV and connected TV gain ground, forcing broadcasters to innovate. “AI-generated content is just 2 per cent of engagement,” Jackson added, “highlighting the dominance of high-quality human content. The key for Indian media companies is scaling while monetising effectively from day one.”
Hannah Walsh, principal analyst at Ampere Analysis, added hard numbers to the picture. India produced over 24,000 titles in January 2026 alone, with 19,000 available internationally. The country now accounts for 12 per cent of Asia-Pacific content spend, up from 8 per cent in 2021, outpacing both Japan and China. Key exporters include JioStar, Zee Entertainment, Sony India, Amazon and Netflix, delivering over 7,500 Indian-produced titles abroad each year. The top importing markets are Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, the United States and the Philippines. Scripted content dominates globally at 88 per cent, with crime dramas and children’s and family titles performing particularly strongly.
Manoj Dobhal, chief executive and executive director of Dish TV India, framed the summit’s ambition squarely. “Stories don’t need translation. They need a platform, discovery, and reach, local or global,” he said. “India produces more movies than any country, our streaming platforms compete globally, and our tech and creators win international awards. Yet fragmentation slows growth. Producers, platforms, and tech move in different lanes. We need shared spaces, collaboration, and an ecosystem where ideas, technology, and people meet. That is why we built Content India.”
The data, the pitches and the prize money all pointed to the same conclusion: India is not waiting for the world to discover its stories. It is building the infrastructure to sell them.
