Regulation - Indian Broadcasting World

TRAI suggests telecom services licensing revamp; OTT not mentioned

Setting the stage for an overhaul of the existing telecom service licensing regime, Trai yesterday recommended three broad categories of telecommunication service authorisations --- main service authorisations, auxiliary service authorisations, and captive service authorisations --- but does not explicitly mention OT...

TRAI to organise global regulators’ roundtable & emerging b’cast trends meet

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) will be hosting two events mid-October in Delhi --- a global regulators’ roundtable and a symposium on ‘Emerging Trends and Technologies in Broadcasting Sector’ --- that promise to bring forth interesting discussions around present regulatory regime and environment in ...

MIB reschedules WAVES to Feb 5-9

The Ministry of Information & Broadcasting (MIB) has expressed gratitude to the industry for its enthusiastic response following the announcement of the World Audio Visual & Entertainment Summit (WAVES) and the launch of the Create In India Challenge...

TRAI directs telco providers to curb misuse of messaging services from Sept.1

The Centre on Tuesday mandated access service providers to take concrete measures to curb misuse of messaging services, effective September 1. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TR...

Govt. withdraws draft of B’cast Bill; new version after more consultations

Though it’s not an ideal situation as the future course of action is not clear, but for the Indian media and entertainment industry there’s something to cheer about: the Indian government yesterday, according to multiple media reports, withdrew the latest draft of the Broadcast Bill, which had generated lot of heat over State’s efforts to contro...

18 TV news channels’ permissions cancelled in last 5 years: MIB

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) has said that while 14 satellite news channels were permitted to start operations in 2023, penal actions against 18 defaulters were taken for breach of various regulations in th...

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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!