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SC stays OTT norms cases in lower courts; to hear the issue in April

The Supreme Court today issued a stay on a batch of petitions, filed in lower courts, related to the Indian government’s regulations for streaming services, medianama quoted from tweets of

Kangana, Bajpayee, Dhanush bag top honours at Film Awards

Film star Kangana Ranaut was named best actress for her roles in Hindi films ‘Manikarnika’ and ‘Panga’at the announcement of the 67th National Film Awards on Monday.

Manoj Bajpayee and...

CricketPang publishing & b’casting for brand awareness

Global character creation and animation production company has announced a publishing deal with HarperCollins India for CricketPang, an initiative that will further its brand awareness apart from broadcasting and OTT platforms.

Pointing out that the publishing deal was for 26 storybo...

Toonsutra to makes its April debut in India

The burgeoning Asian webtoon market is set to expand further with the April 2021 launch of Graphic India’s Toonsutra, a comics platform for mobile devices. In addition to standalone comics, Toonsutra will offer exclusive original web comics based on hit Indian film and TV properties, including S.S. Rajamouli’s Baahubali film franchise, recent...

Hunt begins for new TRAI secretary

The hunt to find a new secretary for India’s broadcast and telecoms regulator TRAI has begun as the incumbent SK Gupta is slated to attain superannuation in June 2021 after a two month extension was given to him recently.

The post of secretary Telecom Regulatory Authority of India

Google NBU head Sengupta quits

Caesar Sengupta, Google's payments chief and the head of the Next Billion Users initiative, is leaving the company.

"It's time for me to see if I can ride without training wheels," Sengupta said in a Linked...

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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!