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BSNL gets $11 bn revival package, including 4G, 5G spectrum

India’s Cabinet yesterday approved the third revival package for state-owned telco BSNL with a total outlay of Rs 89,047 crore (approximately$10.79 billion).

Airtel enhances entertainment portfolio with FanCode content

Bharti Airtel ‘Airtel’, one of India's leading telecommunications service providers, announced today that it will make FanCode content available to its subscribers. Airtel Xstream now offers content from 19 OTT platforms, the most OTT platforms available to consumers from any provider across mobile and large-screen formats. FanCode is the ...

Vi reports quarterly growth in 4G subs

Vodafone Idea Limited has released its financial results for the fiscal year 2022-23's fourth quarter. The company's average daily revenue increased by 4 percent quarter on quarter, reaching Rs. 105.3 billion. Furthermore, EBITDA increased to Rs. 20.7 bn in the third quarter of the fiscal year, up from Rs...

Tele Columbus launches next-gen hybrid android TV service

NAGRA, a Kudelski Group company and the world's leading independent provider of content protection and media and entertainment solutions announced Tele Columbus, a German operator, has chosen NAGRA as its solution provider and prime integrator to launch PUR TV, its new hybrid cable and multiscreen solution. ...

Bharti Airtel beats quarterly profit estimates on tariff hike

Indian 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 a key performance indicator in the telecom industry came in at 178 rupees for th...

300 mn Vi users move to Ericsson charging system in India

Ericsson, the Swedish telecommunications giant, has announced that it has yesterday completed the charging consolidation program for Vodafone Idea Ltd (VIL) in India, which will help the telecom company improve customer experience and launch new products and services more quickly in the 5G era. The project, which was implemented through the ...

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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!