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BARC Rating 3rd Week: Sun TV maintains lead position in all genres

Broadcasting Audience Research Council (BARC) 3rd Week (15th January – 21st January 2022) has released its report. In India, Tamil GEC Sun TV was the most viewed channel in the third week of January, the channel garnered 3001.92 impressions, s...

Google partners with Airtel to invest up to $1 billion

Bharti Airtel (Airtel), one of India’s premier communications solutions providers, and American tech giant, Google on Friday announced a long-term, multi-year agreement to accelerate the growth of India’s digital ecosystem. As part of this partnership, Google plans to

Voot Kids brings action-adventure series

India’s largest and most loved content platform for kids, Voot Kids, has pulled out all stops to enthral its young viewers with an unlimited dose of entertainment with a new high octane superhero series ‘Blazing Teams: Masters of Yo Kwon Do to India’. The skewed animation is specially offered for a pre-teen audience, well-received internation...

TRAI directive to telcos on monthly plan validity

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) in its fresh order issued on Thursday has mandated that telecom service providers in the country must offer at least one-plan voucher which has a validity of up to 30-days.

It has also mandated that telecom service providers (TSPs) must pr...

Netflix announces political drama series ‘The Diplomat’

Streaming giant Netflix has announced a new political drama series, titled ‘The Diplomat’.

The streamer has placed an eight-episode order for th...

France’s new content window rules agreed; applies to OTT services too

France’s new content rights window timescales, which now include SVoD platforms, will come into operation from February 10, following agreement between broadcasters and the movie industry...

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“This initiative will empower subscribers to pay online and subscribe to the channels they want to watch and get it activated on their TV sets in real-time without any delay. Without needing to undertake any software development, LMOs can approach Mobiezy for their pre-built and pre-integrated solution that uses NXTDigital’s news APIs and can be up and running with their own mobile apps within just a few days.”

RU Ediriwira, Group CTO, NXTDigital Limited

“With the launch of Partnership for Growth 3.0 we intend to expand our network with 40 new NXTHUBs, each offering up to 650 live TV channels and broadband. Our efforts are focused on harnessing the convergence of technologies, developing robust apps and creating new business models that will help the overall ecosystem, delivering the best experience to our subscribers. We hope to achieve a stronger foothold in the rural regions of the country and grow our subscriber base.”

N.K. Rouse, COO, NXT Digital Ltd

“One of the key principles of the Hinduja Group is ‘Partnership for Growth’. After 2.0 saw the launch of HITS to connect LMOs in even the most remote locations through the only satellite-based cable TV platform in India; 3.0 focuses not just on strengthening the overall ecosystem we have built, but harnessing the convergence of technologies – to be delivered through a national network of NXTHUBs. Video and broadband are only the beginning of the digital highway of services that we have developed for roll-out backed by a robust suite of innovative apps developed by service providers exclusively for our LMOs and subscribers.”

Vynsley Fernandes, MD & CEO, NXTDigital Limited

“Wireline broadband is becoming ever more important not only in connecting homes across the country but also small to large enterprises-to the digital economy. The NXTHUBs will be the perfect point-of-presence to offer broadband services to cater to these consumer needs.”

Yugal Kishore Sharma CEO, ONEOTT Intertainment Limited

Amazing and grim battle for survival. Guess it will end up in Supreme Court. All that NCLT asked Zee to do was to file a reply to Invesco petition for a EGM. Now this is getting too serious. So far Invesco has been hammered for demanding an EGM. What is Zee upto? Ofcourse my lawyer community knows better!