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Tokyo Olympics rescheduled for 2021

Tokyo Summer Olympics 2020 gets new dates to be held in the next year; 2021 from July 23 to August 8. The decision is taken by International Olympic Committee (IOC), the Tokyo Games organizing Committee, the Tokyo Metropolitan and the Japa...

MIB directs MSOs & cable operators to carry mandatory channels

Ministry of Information and Broadcasting issued an advisory stating that all the MSOs and cable operators have to carry the all mandatory channels of Doordarshan, Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha TV on their networks. It said, “All MSOs and cabl...

SPNI expands broadcast deal with WWE brand

As the WWE’s popularity is growing in India the broadcaster Sony Pictures Networks India (SPNI) has extended its broadcast deal with WWE for five more years. The deal would allow the broadcaster to stream Raw, SmackDown, NXT® and WWE pa...

Tata Sky Broadband to come up with free landline service & unlimited calling

Tata Sky Broadband will soon offer free landline service with unlimited voice calling to its broadband users. The internet service provider released a poster featured on its website. The poster carries a tagline “Stream Unlimited, Call ...

Ortel Communications CEO resigns

President and CEO Bibhu Prasad Rath of Ortel Communications steps down from the company. He will be relieved from the company on 3 April, 2020. He has been with company for 20 years.

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Sportsperson come forward to fight against COVID-19

The fortnightly magazine published by The Hindu Group- Sportstar has suspended its print edition due to growing pandemic COVID-19. The announcement was made on Twitter which read as;

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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!