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Alcoa demands NTO 2.0 be put on hold, terms it ‘black law’

The All Local Cable Operators Association (Alcoa), a representative body of LCOs, has equated regulator TRAI’s new tariff regime to a ‘black law’, demanding its review and non-implementation, while dro...

BECIL CMD Kuruvilla bats for cable ops adopting ‘innovative solutions’

Broadcast Engineering Consultants India Ltd. (BECIL) CMD George Kuruvilla urged the cable operators to work on ‘innovative solutions’ to provide better services to consumers, while suggesting that cable fraternity too has a role to play in content monitoring, apart from regulators.

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Debkumar Dasgupta quits IndiaCast

IndiaCast Media Syndication head (Middle East-Africa) Debkumar Dasgupta steps down from his post after a long stint of over two decades, said in his LinkedIn post. He will be in the company till December 31, 2021. Dasgupta was currently posted in Dubai a...

Disney extends CFO Christine McCarthy’s contract

The Walt Disney Co. CFO Christine McCarthy is extending her tenure with the entertainment giant.

The veteran executive has signed a contract extension, which will keep her le...

Dwindling consumer interest in news worry US media outlets

The presidential election, pandemic and racial reckoning were stories that drove intense interest and engagement to news outlets in 2020 in the US. To a large degree, 2021 represented the inevitable hangover....

Microsoft latest to drop out of in-person CES attendance

Microsoft Corp is the latest company to join the bandwagon of on-person boycott of Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, to be held early January, owing to the spreading Omicron COVID-19 variant.

The US software giant added that it...

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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!