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Disney+ Hotstar doesn’t have the digital streaming rights for the Indian Premier League anymore. The rights were bagged by Viacom18 in 2o22. This year, IPL will be live-streamed for free on the JioCinema. One of the biggest reasons why consumers went for the subscription of Disney+ Hotstar was IPL. While the platform still holds rights for live streaming the cricket matches of team India, losing the streaming rights of IPL is definitely going to affect its demand.
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IPL is mostly a two-month affair. This gives the consumers of Indian telcos a great incentive to buy prepaid plans, which come bundled with a free 3-month subscription to Disney+ Hotstar. On top of this, there’s also the fact that the platform will not offer content HBO content from March 31. Thus the demand for Disney+ Hotstar prepaid plans might see a drop.
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In order to keep the revenues flowing, the telcos might bring revamped prepaid plans in the near future. This is to cater to the audience that wants to watch the IPL games on mobile data. Typically, watching an entire cricket match (T20 – that takes palace for around 4 hours) on mobile would need more than 2GB of data.
Thus, the telcos could bring in more prepaid plans that come bundled with either lump sum data or high amounts of daily data. It is worth noting that Jio might not bring such plans because it already is offering truly unlimited data with the 5G Welcome offer. Airtel, on the other hand, could bring such plans because its users on 5G networks would experience a faster drain of data when watching cricket matches online.
