Amsterdam, 8 December 2022: VEON Ltd. (NASDAQ and Euronext Amsterdam: VEON), a worldwide digital operator that gives converged connectivity and on-line companies, declares that Banglalink’s Toffee, the biggest digital leisure platform in Bangladesh, has reached over 25 million viewers for its FIFA World Cup streaming service through the event’s ’Spherical of 16’ stage.
The Toffee digital leisure platform is operated by Banglalink, VEON’s digital operator in Bangladesh, and provides open entry to clients of all telco operators within the nation.
“World cup streaming has proved to be a compelling digital operator service and demonstrates the massive potential for digital leisure on cell units,” states Kaan Terzioglu, CEO of VEON Group and Chairman of the Board of Banglalink. “For the primary time in historical past, soccer followers in Bangladesh can watch their much-loved sport from a tool of their selection wherever they’re within the nation. The high-speed connectivity and world-class companies are fueling Bangladesh’s dynamic financial development and empowering the lives of individuals.”
The milestone achievement was celebrated right now at Banglalink’s Workplace within the presence of Kaan Terzioglu, CEO of VEON Group and Chairman, Banglalink, and Augie Okay Fabela II, Chairman Emeritus & Co-Founder, VEON, Banglalink’s father or mother firm. Additionally current on the celebration occasion had been Erik Aas, Chief Government Officer, Banglalink and different high administration members of the group.
“We launched the World Cup reside streaming facility on Toffee to supply a superior high quality viewing expertise to tens of millions of soccer followers in Bangladesh,” says Erik Aas, Chief Government Officer of Banglalink. “The overwhelmingly constructive response exhibits the recognition of the streaming service and the potential of Toffee. We count on to see extra views per match with the event reaching the extra thrilling quarter-final stage.”
About VEON
VEON is a worldwide digital operator that presently supplies converged connectivity and on-line companies to over 200 million clients in seven dynamic markets. We’re reworking folks’s lives, empowering people, creating alternatives for higher digital inclusion and driving financial development throughout international locations which can be house to greater than 8% of the world’s inhabitants. Headquartered in Amsterdam, VEON is listed on NASDAQ and Euronext.
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About Banglalink
Banglalink is likely one of the main digital communications service suppliers in Bangladesh, working to unlock new alternatives for its clients as they navigate the digital world. Pushed by the imaginative and prescient of reworking lives by expertise, Banglalink additionally strives to rework right into a future-ready service supplier able to catering to the calls for of the brand new digital period. It’s a subsidiary of VEON Ltd – a Nasdaq and Euronext listed connectivity supplier headquartered in the Netherlands.
About Toffee
Toffee is Bangladesh’s premier video streaming app, launched in November 2019. Simply in few months after its launch, Toffee turned the #1 leisure app in Bangladesh in Google Play Retailer up to now! Not like another video streaming app out there, Toffee is accessible to everybody from any community. The app provides a buffer-less viewing expertise with straightforward and easy navigation. It may be loved on Android smartphones, Android TVs, and iOS units. Toffee presently has 80+ nationwide and worldwide Dwell TV channels, reside sports activities and provides a big assortment of video-on-demand and consumer generated content material.
Disclaimer
This launch incorporates “forward-looking statements,” because the phrase is outlined in Part 27A of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Part 21E of the U.S. Securities Alternate Act of 1934, as amended. Ahead-looking statements will not be historic information, and embrace statements regarding, amongst different issues, the digital leisure companies we offer. Ahead-looking statements are inherently topic to dangers and uncertainties, lots of which VEON can not predict with accuracy and a few of which VEON won’t even anticipate. The forward-looking statements contained on this launch communicate solely as of the date of this launch. VEON doesn’t undertake to publicly replace, besides as required by U.S. federal securities legal guidelines, any forward-looking assertion to replicate occasions or circumstances after such dates or to replicate the prevalence of unanticipated occasions. There will be no assurance that the digital leisure companies referred to above will proceed to take care of the viewership reported above.
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