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Riding increased ARPU, Jio logs 24 percent jump in Q3 profit

Reliance Jio, India's largest telecom operator, yesterday reported a 24 per cent jump in its October-December quarter net profit as average per-user revenue rose largely due to tariff hike.

Its standalone net profit of Rs 6,477 crore in October-December 2024 compared to Rs 5,208 cror...

Meta apologises for Zuckerberg’s incorrect India comments

Facebook parent company Meta on Wednesday apologised for its CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s comments on India being among the countries where the incumbent lost power after handling the COVID-19 pandemic, saying the remarks were an “inadvertent error”.

The apology came soon after Union Minist...

FIFA+ selects Magnite to power video advertising globally

Nasdaq-listed adtech firm Magnite has announced its selection as FIFA+’s global programmatic provider where it will power video and display advertising on FIFA+ across North America, EMEA, LATAM and APAC.

The collaboration marks another important step in

Oscar-shortlisted short film ‘Anuja’ to stream on Netflix

The Oscar-shortlisted short film ‘Anuja’ is all set to make its streaming debut on Netflix, offering viewers a poignant, heart-warming and powerful story, the streamer announced.

Directed by Adam J. Graves and produced by Suchitra Mattai, ‘Anuja’ t...

Streamer Hari Om offers free subscriptions at Kumbh Mela

Hari Om, an Indian devotional OTT platform, has announced a unique initiative to distribute free subscriptions to devotees at the Maha Kumbh Mela, the world’s largest spiritual gathering, the streamer said in a media statement yesterday.

Scheduled from January 13 to February 26, 2025...

TRAI issues recommendations for regulatory framework for ground-based b’casters

The ‘Guidelines for Uplinking and Downlinking of satellite TV channels in India, 2022’ issued by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB), containing the terms and conditions for TV broadcasting services, make it mandatory fo...

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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!