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On the valuation front, the OMGL Issue comes at a significant 85% premium to
Tanla, based on annualised 1HFY2008 numbers and our FY2008 Estimates
Post Issue Shareholding Pattern respectively. This is despite the fact that OMGL’s Operating metrics do not
compare favourably with Tanla. OMGL’s business model should command better
Promoters Group 57.5%
metrics than Tanla being product-based, while Tanla operates through a Services
MF/Banks/Indian model. But this is not the case. Hence, we believe that this premium is not
42.5%
FIs/FIIs/Public & Others
justified, even after taking into account higher growth rates going ahead.
Company Background
A lion’s share of OMGL’s revenues comes from the Indian telecom market. The company also
has a fast-growing international business portfolio in the Emerging markets of Asia. OMGL’s
products and applications are delivered by its carrier customers to their end-user subscribers.
These products include ring-back tones, voice portals, ringtone downloads, contests, music and
missed call alerts, among others. Thus, the company enables a better user experience.
OMGL clients include India’s Top-six mobile service operators, viz. Bharti Airtel, Reliance
Communications (RCOM), Vodafone-Essar, BSNL, Tata Teleservices and Idea Cellular. Through
these operators, the company had a market reach of over 232mn mobile subscribers in India as
on September 30, 2007. OMGL also has over ten international telecom operators in over eight
countries with clients including SingTel Optus in Australia, Sheba Telecom in Bangladesh, Maxis
in Malaysia, Bakrie Telecom and PT Indosat in Indonesia. As on June 30, 2007, OMGL had a
market reach of over 81mn international mobile subscribers.
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FY04 FY05 FY06 FY07
OMGL works principally on a revenue-share model. The company has long-standing relationships
with its clients and operates through revenue-share arrangements. Service deployments involve
complex hardware systems and software applications embedded within the carrier’s network
infrastructure and integrated into its billing, customer care and other core network systems. The
company constantly makes investments in research and development (R&D) to keep its products
relevant.
OMGL was ranked as the top value-added services (VAS) company in FY2007 by Voice & Data
magazine. The company’s Net Revenues have grown at a CAGR of 82.7% over FY2005-07, to
touch Rs136.7cr in FY2007. OMGL has grown its Net Profits at a CAGR of 57.9% over the
mentioned period to Rs34.9cr in FY2007. For 1HFY2008, OMGL clocked a Topline of Rs112.5cr
and Bottomline of Rs30.5cr, reflecting strong growth.
Industry Overview
The Indian Telecom Industry has been one of the best examples of the success of the Indian
government’s reforms programme. The sector has grown at a scorching pace over the past few
years, aided by enabling regulations, heightened competition resulting in across-the-board
lowering of telecom tariffs, higher disposable income due to India’s strong GDP growth rates and
greater coverage of India’s landscape by mobile service operators.
Earlier, the telecom sector was a government-controlled monopoly, wherein just 3 players viz.,
MTNL, VSNL and the Department of Telecommunications (the earlier name of BSNL), provided
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Initially, due to the prohibitively high cost of licenses, telecom services were expensive and saw
few additions to the mobile subscriber base. At the end of FY1998, there were a mere 880,000
cellular subscribers in the country, with over half of them being from the Mumbai and Delhi
circles. However, things changed dramatically with the advent of the National Telecom Policy
(NTP) 1999, which envisioned a shift in the license fee payment mechanism, from a fixed regime
to a revenue-sharing regime. Other initiatives such as the allotment of the third and fourth cellular
licenses, the unified access licensing regime, implementation of the Calling Party Pays (CPP)
regime, making incoming calls free and consistent initiatives to reduce regulatory costs to telecom
operators also resulted in a quantum jump in the cellular subscriber base.
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Source: COAI, AUSPI, Angel Research; figures include fixed wireless phones (FWP)
At the end of December 2007, the total mobile subscriber base stood at 229.3mn, with GSM
subscribers standing at 172.2mn, while 57.1mn subscribers were CMDA customers. At these
levels, mobile teledensity in the country stands at around 21%, leaving as yet strong scope for
growth going ahead.
Data services revenues of the Indian Cellular Industry stood at US $858mn at the end of 2006,
according to industry analyst firm, Gartner. This implies a strong CAGR growth of 84.5% over
2002-06. These revenues are estimated to continue to grow at a healthy CAGR of over 45%
annually to hit a size of US $5.6bn by 2011.
Revenues from data services, as a percentage of mobile operators’ Topline, have also shown a
positive trend. Consider, in the latest quarter, VAS revenues as a percentage of sales of Bharti
Airtel’s Mobile Services Business stood at 9.8% (including person-to-person SMS revenues).
Excluding SMS, VAS revenues stood at 5.2% of Mobile Services revenues. This has seen a slight
increase over a couple of fiscals back, where the respective figures were 7.4% and 1.6%. The
company’s VAS revenues have grown at an outstanding CAGR of 118.2% over FY2003-07, from
just Rs85cr in FY2003 to Rs1,921cr in FY2007.
Thus, there is significant growth potential for mobile data services in the Indian markets. It should
be noted that in more advanced, developed telecom markets such as the UK, data services
account for a much more significant part of wireless revenue. For example, O2, a major operator
in the UK, records data revenues of as much as 33% of its sales, reflecting the strong scope for
growth in this segment.
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Investment Positives
The Indian VAS market, on the other hand, is growing at a faster rate than the mobile subscriber
additions. Gartner estimates Indian data service revenues to grow at a CAGR of 45.7% over
CY2006-11E to achieve a size of US $5.6bn. Thus, significant growth is expected going forward.
Exhibit 4: Indian Cellular Industry data service revenues – Strong scope for growth
(US $mn)
6,000 5,637
5,000 4,465
CAGR 45.7%
4,000 3,385
3,000 2,466
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Further, ARPUs for Indian telecom operators are constantly on the decline. The Indian Telecom
Market is arguably the most competitive in the world and given the strong growth expected and
latent demand yet to be tapped, operators are constantly introducing cheaper schemes and call
rates to grab a greater share of the pie. This is leading to a consistently falling trend in ARPUs.
Increasing revenues from VAS is thus a very important requirement for telcos to arrest this
decline. As a result, operators are constantly introducing newer schemes to get a greater
proportion of their revenues from VAS leading to the ever-increasing demand for these services
from the operators’ end.
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Source: TRAI
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Bharti RCOM Vodafone-Essar BSNL Tata Teleservices Idea Cellular
Source: COAI, AUSPI, Angel Research; Note: The figures include fixed wireless phones (FWP) and exclude the CDMA
subscribers of BSNL and MTNL.
OMGL’s business model is product-based. The company’s service deployment process involves
hardware and software applications that are embedded within the operator’s network and are
integrated with its billing and other systems. Thus, OMGL’s products power the delivery of mobile
VAS to its carrier client’s subscribers, acting as the ‘Intel Inside’ that powers personal computers,
even as the services are branded in the operator’s name (white labeled).
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Concerns
However, we believe the company’s valuations are very demanding and even adjusting for strong
growth going ahead, the Issue does not come at reasonable valuations. Given that Tanla
Solutions, a company in a similar line of business, is available at more reasonable valuations
even after factoring in slower growth, we believe investors are better off staying away from the
issue. Investors should note that we are enthused by OMGL’s business model and believe
it will record strong growth over the next few years. However, we believe the IPO is
aggressively priced and recommend investors to ‘Avoid’ the Issue purely on the basis of
valuations.
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