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VIL to make investments to roll out 5G network: Birla

Telecom operator Vodafone Idea (VIL) will make significant investments to roll out the 5G network and expand 4G coverage in the coming quarters, billionaire industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla said on Friday. Birla, chairman of Aditya Birla Group, which is one of the shareholders of the troubled telco VIL, wa...

Reliance unveils satellite-delivered b’band via JioSpaceFiber

Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited, a leading name in India's telecommunications sector, has unveiled JioSpaceFiber, the country's first satellite-based gigabit broadband service, marking a step in connecting remote regions of India with high-speed internet. According to ANI, this launch was showcased at the Indi...

Vodafone Idea-C-DoT IoT lab tests 5G, NB-IoT devices

Vodafone Idea Wednesday said it has completed the testing for over 50 Internet of Things (IoT) devices and certification as per oneM2M and 3GPP standards for interoperability, at the IoT Lab that it has set up with the Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DoT). Until today, five devices have been certifie...

Jio, Plume join forces for AI-enhanced FTTH and FWA customer experience

Reliance Jio has partnered with Palo Alto-based Plume to deliver artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced customer experiences through its JioFiber fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) and JioAirFiber fixed wireless access (FWA) services to nearly 200 million premises in India. With this new partnership, Jio will deploy Pl...

Airtel unveils CCaaS platform for unified solutions

Bharti Airtel has launched Airtel Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS), an omni-channel cloud platform providing enterprises with a unified experience for all contact center solutions. The company announced a regulatory filing with BSE on Tuesday. The Airtel CCaaS platform enables businesses to access co...

DoT Rejects Vodafone Idea’s license fee review plea

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has refused Vodafone Idea's request for a review of license fee demands totaling ₹3,273 crore for fiscal years 2016 and 2017. India's third-largest carrier, Vodafone Idea, is now evaluating its options after filing a plea with the Supreme Court (SC) to rectify allege...

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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!