26th March 2007

Nettlinx to enter Media business

Nettlinx Limited, A BSE listed Company has today received the approval for enhancing the Capital and issue preferential warrants to promoters and investors. Nettlinx held its Extraordinary General Meeting today at Hotel Golkonda, Hyderabad. The Company will be issuing preferential warrants at a premium of Rs.20/- per warrant amounting to Rs.30/- per warrant. The investors who have been given the preferential offer will have to pay 10% of the value i.e., Rs.3/- per warrant at the time of subscription and balance at the time of conversion of the warrant to an equity share. With this approval the company’s authorized capital becomes Rs.20 crores.

Nettlinx has earlier given the list of the preferential investors to the shareholders as well as BSE.

India & the media industry

It is estimated that there will be over 100 million cable and satellite homes in 2010. At the moment 21 million people access the net. In three years time there will be 100 million net users. There will be over 20 million broadband subscribers by 2010. The television industry (including direct-to-home and newer technologies like IPTV), will continue to garner the largest revenue share. TV gets the highest revenues of Rs 14,800 crore. By 2010, revenues for TV will be at Rs 42,700 crore, and revenues of internet advertising is expected to grow from Rs 100 crore to Rs 750 crore.

Entertainment Industry Current Size Projected 2011 CAGR TV 191 519 22% Internet 1.6 9.5 43%

NettLinx wishes to use its infrastructure as well as the management expertise that it had acquired to explore new business. It intends to foray into the space of Content delivery in multiple streams – TV, Internet and IPTV in a Niche segment & address regional language needs. Early movers in establishing media marketplaces will have a significant advantage said Dr. Loka Manohar Reddy, who is also the Founder Director of the Company.

He said the company looked at the Challenges and opportunities and has realized that Consumer needs are expanding beyond the mass media and segmented media to ‘Lifestyle Media’, where in the Pull-oriented media consumption models, such as a media marketplace, in which consumer is furnished with robust search, research, customization, configuration and scheduling tools which could be delivered on the Internet platform.

Niche channels are fast drawing more eyeballs. There is ample room for more niche channels. Regional programming is another segment that offers tremendous opportunities. This has prompted NettLinx to explore the opportunity of regional Business Channel with India Growth Economy as the lead story.

The Indian media industry today has everything going for it - be it the impetus from the economy, the digital lifestyle and spending habits of the consumers and the opportunities thrown open by the advancements in technology. All one has to do is to cash in on the growth potential and the opportunities said Mr. Vijay Bhasker Reddy, Executive Director. He also said with this the company will get into the next league and will be able to deliver better share owner value.

For any further queries Please contact:

Mr. Vijay Bhasker Reddy
Executive Director, Nettlinx Limited.

Phone: 040-23232200
Mobile: 98490 52643
Email: vbr@nettlinx.com

About Nettlinx Limited

Nettlinx Limited (BSE - Nettlinx), a company listed on BSE providing Internet, Bandwidth, Hosting and VOIP besides Enterprise Services. The company has a US delivery capabilities center in New Jersey, USA and a majority holding in a Food Testing and certification laboratory IADFAC in Bangalore. Nettlinx also has a realty holding company with investments in Nagpur, Hyderabad and Sriperambadur, Tamilnadu.

CXOToday.com
By Hanil Manghani
Mumbai, Aug 23, 2006

Nettlinx, an Andhra Pradesh based ISP provider and US based Smart IMS have allied to launch a VoIP service branded 'Matallo' in AP.

Matallo, (meaning 'in words' in Telugu) - a result of their SmartLinx JV, will see Nettlinx offer various home and enterprise phone models, besides Matallo Videophone, which offers video stream, allowing video calls and conferences. More details

THE HINDU BUSINESSLINE
Our Bureau

Raising capital through preferential warrants

Hyderabad March 26 Nettlinx Ltd, a company listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange, has on Monday received the approval to enhance capital and issue preferential warrants to promoters and investors. It has also announced plans to enter the media and entertainment space.

At the company's extraordinary general meeting on Monday, it was decided to issue preferential warrants at a premium of Rs 20 per warrant, amounting to Rs 30 per warrant. More details

THE HINDU BUSINESSLINE
Our Bureau
Hyderabad , Aug. 23

Nettlinx has announced partnership with Smart IMS, a US corporation, to offer Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)-based services.

Nettlinx plans to invest about $3 million in this project and is also in the process of evaluating options for further diversification into other related areas. More details

NETTLINX launches new software “COSTEXCEL” for Beverage Industry
Hyderabad, India — 11th March 2009

Nettlinx Limited, a company listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) today launched a new Software package in Costing titled “COSTEXCEL”. Nettlinx in association with M/s Srikari Management Consultants (P) Limited has developed this software and the first package developed is for the Bottling Industry involving Carbonated and Fruit beverages which are popularly known in the market place as Soft drinks. This work is a combination of the software developing skills of Nettlinx Limited, Cost management practices implemented by M/s Srikari Management Consultants and adopted by M/s Sarvaraya Sugars Limited, a franchisee of The Coca-Cola Company.

With this Nettlinx will be in a position to offer customers all the products, tools and services necessary to build and operate an effective cost management software to help companies identify the importance of Costing in the business operations. Nettlinx going forward wishes to roll out this package in other countries too, to help the small and medium sized beverage manufacturers implement this package and realize benefits. Money Saved is Money earned and what “COSTEXCEL” will do is help enterprises save money by helping them control costs.

The Costing Software brand “COSTEXCEL” was launched by the Chairman of Andhra Sugars, Sri Mallapudi Harichandra Prasad and the “COSTEXCEL” for Bottling Industry software package was released by Sri Yogesh Agarwal, Chairman and Managing Director, IDBI Bank Limited.

Welcoming the guests of honor, Mr. Vijay Bhasker Reddy, Executive Director, Nettlinx said, “the foray of Nettlinx into Software Services is happening on a day full of colors (taking reference to the festival of colors – Holi) and wished every one on the occasion to have a colorful and joyful year ahead in 2009-10. This will be a day to remember, more so because the first package is going into an industry that I was associated for a long time and that is the beverage industry”. This launch is happening more so, when the manufacturing industry is facing recession and hopes to add more packages with industry specific inputs in days to come.

"Our first and main focus through this software development is to ensure that the Industry survives in times of economic depressions and these are the times when costs and cost management come to the fore front” as per Mr. K Narasimha Murthy, who is the System Architect. Costs assume utmost importance, in the manufacturing space and it is essential to control costs. The only way to control costs is to be on top of the costs and that is possible only with proper MIS. The aim of “COSTEXCEL” is to provide that MIS without impacting the various ERP packages in the industry.