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Airtel rejoins Google to bring RCS messaging back to Indian users

In a move that could reshape the future of mobile communication in the country, Bharti Airtel has renewed its partnership with Google to roll out Rich Communication Services (RCS) messaging on its network. The development comes after nearly a year of dis...

S8UL launches India’s 1st FGC Talent Hunt for Tekken 8 & Street Fighter 6

S8UL has unveiled a landmark initiative for India’s fighting game community with the launch of the country’s first-ever FGC Talent Hunt Program, aimed at discovering and nurturing competitive gamers in Tekken 8 and Street Fighter 6. The six-month programme, scheduled to run from January to June 2026, seeks to create a structured development p...

Nokia, Airtel team up to open 5G network APIs for India’s developers

Nokia has joined hands with Bharti Airtel to make the telecom operator’s network capabilities available to developers and enterprises across India. The collaboration, announced through a Nokia press release, is aimed at opening Airtel’s pan-India network for third-party innovation via Nokia’s Network as Code platform equipped with a dedicated...

Meta signs new deals with news outlets to boost AI

Meta on Friday announced a significant expansion of its artificial intelligence assistant, revealing new partnerships with major global news organisations to deliver real-time information across Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. The move marks one of the company’s most direct integrations of professional news content into its AI products in rece...

Reliance Jio leads India’s telecom growth ; adds 3.9 mn active subscribers in Oct

India's active subscriber base rose sharply by 5.7 million in October, strongest show in five months, with Jio leading the pack with gains at 3.9 million, according to various analyst reports that crunched TRAI recent data.

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US tech giants oppose Jio, Vi 6GHz spectrum plans

US technology majors Apple, Amazon, Cisco, Meta, HP and Intel Corporation have jointly opposed Reliance Jio and Vodafone Idea’s demand to allocate the 6 GHz spectrum band for mobile services, instead urging that the entire band be reserved for Wi-Fi. Accor...

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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!