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India brings 4G services to North-Eastern border areas

Government-funded 4G tower of Airtel started services last week in Lumpo, one of the last villages in the district near Line of Actual control in Arunachal Pradesh, paving way for access to a new age digital economy for the locals.

Vodafone appoints Margherita Della Valle as Group Chief Executive

Vodafone has appointed Margherita Della Valle as its new permanent chief executive to oversee the turnaround of the British telecoms group. Della Valle, the FTSE 100 company's finance chief, has served as interim CEO since January when she took over from Nick Read. The appointment comes at a tim...

Airtel 5G Plus now available in 3,000 cities, towns

Bharti Airtel yesterday announced that its ultra-fast 5G service is now accessible to users in 3,000 cities and towns throughout India. According to a press release, all significant urban and rural areas of the country have limitless access to Airtel 5G Plus

Reliance Jio, Viacom18 report Q4 & annual revenue growth

Reliance Industries’ telecom, digital and media business verticals all reported healthy and encouraging Q4 and annual (both ending March 31) financial results.

The country's biggest tele...

Jio rejects Airtel’s charge on predatory pricing of live TV channels on JioFiber

Reliance Jio has dismissed Bharti Airtel's recent complaint to the regulator about the Mukesh Ambani-led telco allegedly unleashing predatory offers of live TV channels with its JioFiber home broadband plans, calling the move a deliberate, malicious attempt to defame Jio's consumer-friendly tariffs an...

Telcos being mindful of service quality in 5G rollout: COAI

The industry group COAI stated that operators are careful of service quality as they roll out 5G, but stressed that the full benefits of seamless urban-rural connectivity of fifth-generation services will be realized once these

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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!