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Is Tata Play, Airtel Digital TV merger now nearer?

India's Tata Group and Bharti Group are close to merging their satellite TV businesses, creating a nearly $1.6 billion entity with the aim of tiding over the sustained migration of subscribers to digital streaming, Reuters quoted an Economic Times as saying yesterday.

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Airtel, Vi, BSNL lose subs in Nov ‘24; Jio surges: TRAI data

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released its subscription data for November 2024, revealing mixed fortunes for India’s leading telecom operators. While Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea, and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL) saw declines in their subscriber bases, Reliance Jio registered significant gains, reversing a four-month s...

Airtel, VI exit Wi-Fi JV Firefly Networks

Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea have announced their decision to exit the joint venture, Firefly Networks, a Wi-Fi infrastructure provider, by selling their respective stakes to iBus Network and Infrastructure Private Limited, a digital infrastructure solutions provider.

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Airtel faces outage, users across India report network disruptions

Telecom giant Airtel faced a widespread outage on Thursday, leaving users across India grappling with disruptions in both mobile and broadband services. The outage rendered many unable to make calls, access mobile data, or use the internet, sparking frustration among customers. According to Downdetector.com, a website that tracks service outa...

Airtel leads subscriber growth with 1.93mn additions in October

Bharti Airtel has once again demonstrated its market resilience and commitment to innovation, recording the highest net wireless subscriber additions in October 2024. The company added 1.93 million mobile users, as per the latest report from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), making it a standout performer amid a dynamic telecom l...

Airtel, ZEE5 content partnership expands

Bharti Airtel, one of India’s leading telecommunications providers, has partnered with ZEE5, a prominent OTT platform, to offer premium digital entertainment to Airtel WiFi customers. Starting at plans priced at Rs.699, Airtel customers will enjoy complimentary access to ZEE5's extensive content library, further enhancing Airtel's holistic di...

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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!