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PEMRA penalises Pak cable ops for carrying Indian TV channels

Pakistan's electronic media watchdog yesterday took action against more than 50 cable operators across the country and seized their equipment for illegally airing Indian channels and content, days after they were warned...

Disney kicks off layoffs, 4K employees to be impacted

On Monday, the entertainment conglomerate Disney began its second round of layoffs, which will affect 4,000 employees. According to IANS, a third round is expected to begin before the end of the summer. Disney intends to cut 7...

Space policy: comms services’ consumers free to tap any source

The new Indian Space Policy, made public yesterday, said the Indian Space Research Organisation shall transition out from manufacturing operational space systems and focus its energies on research and d...

Disney is poised to eliminate thousands of jobs next week

Walt Disney Co. plans to start cutting thousands of jobs next week, including about 15% of the staff in its entertainment division, people familiar with the matter said....

Tim Cook to meet PM Modi as Apple ups India focus

Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook, who’s already in Mumbai and posted an image with Bollywood star Madhuri Dixit Nene having a vada-paav, will meet India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi and its deputy IT Minister as part of his visit to inaug...

India govt. gets GSMA leadership award@MWC ‘23

The Indian government received the GSMA's 2023 'Government Leadership Award' at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2023 event in Barcelona, Spain, according to Union IT Ashwini Vaishnaw on Tuesday. The GSMA is an organization that represents mobile

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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!