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Telecom Dept. reviews with stakeholders b’band rollout

India’s Department of Telecoms (DoT) convened a review meeting with stakeholders to expedite approvals for quick rollout of broadband across country and a top government official said there should be no delay in grant of right o...

India undertook 27 satellite missions in last 5 years: Minister

India’s minister for Space Dr. Jitendra Singh has said 27 satellite missions, including high thoroughput comms satellite GSAT-11, and 25 launch vehicle missions were successfully accomplished during the last five years.

Vi partners with Hungama Music

Leading telecom service provider VodafoneIdea (Vi) has announced it’s a partnership with Hungama Music. Under this partnership, Vi will offer a six months premium subscription of Hungama Music at no extra cost to all its postpaid and pre-paid customers. As pa...

Suresh Menon joins MX Player as content & creative head, MX Studios

Veteran media industry executive Suresh Menon has joined MX Player as content & creative head, MX Studios. He shared the news on his LinkedIn account, where he wrote, “Really thrilled and excited to announce my new assignment (and) looking forward to this new stint at MX Player, one of India’s ...

ZEEL’s Amit Goenka wins 21st Century Icon Awards at House of Lords

Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (ZEEL) president - digital business and platforms Amit Goenka was awarded the 21st Century Icon Awards at House of Lords, London for his contribution to the growth of the media and entertainment industry, on Saturday. <...

Meity says no powers to ban online games; States can do so

India’s federal Ministry of Electronics and IT (Meity) has said it does not have powers to ban the content of any online games.

“This ministry does not have legislative jurisdictio...

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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!