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HITS launches on Airtel Digital TV

Airtel Digital TV has announced the arrival of its news channel, Airtel HITS HD. Featuring a selection of some of the most popular, iconic, and award-winning Hollywood television content from the 60s to the early 2000s, the channel aims to take viewers in India on a trip down memory lane. HITS will launch on Airtel Digital TV on May 20. It...

NXTDigital FY22 12-month revenue up 14.3%

Digital platforms company NXTDIGITAL Limited, the media vertical of the Hinduja Group, Wednesday announced the financial results for the 12 months ending March 31, 2022, and Q4 of FY22 where data showed that consolidated revenue for the twelve-month grew by 14.3 percent to Rs 1,152.19 crore, up from Rs 1,008.45 crores for the corresponding perio...

Twitter rolls out new Spaces feature

Micro-blogging site Twitter has rolled out the Super Follows-only Spaces feature in which creators who offer Super Follows subscriptions can now host Spaces exclusively for their subscribers. The social media giant said this new option will give creators a way to "offer an extra layer of conversation to their bigg...

5G set to spawn massive job opportunities: Telecom Secy

The advent of 5G and new services that it would usher in will spawn fresh job opportunities in the market, requiring suitable skilling of manpower in new technologies, Telecom Secretary K Rajaraman said on Wednesday. Rajaraman, who was speaking at an event of Telecom Sector Skill Council (TSSC) in New Delhi, said ...

Bharti Airtel Q4 revenue jumps 22% riding on tariff hike

Telecom operator Bharti Airtel Ltd. said on Tuesday its fourth-quarter profit beat estimates and revenue jumped 22.3 percent, boosted by a recent tariff hike.

Its average revenue per user (ARPU), a key performance indicator in the telecom industry, came in at Rs. 178 for the quarter,...

Airtel to set up digital tech hub in Pune

Bharti Airtel is planning to set up a new technology center in Pune to support digital services in the Western region and will be hiring around 500 digital engineering professionals by the end of the current fiscal, a senior company official said. This will be Airtel’s fourth digital technology hub in India and fi...

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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!