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Bharti Airtel Q4 revenue jumps 22% riding on tariff hike

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 (ARPU), a key performance indicator in the telecom industry, came in at Rs. 178 for the quarter,...

India aims to roll out 6G telecom network by decade end: PM Modi

India is targeting the rollout of 6G telecom network, which will provide ultra-high speed internet connectivity, by the end of the decade, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday. India currently has 3G and 4G telecom networks and companies are gearing up to launch 5G over the next few months. Speaking at ...

Netflix sets premiere date for ‘Jersey’

Shahid Kapoor-starrer ‘Jersey’ is heading to Netflix for its digital release on May 20, the streaming platform announced Tuesday. A Hindi remake of the National Award-winning Telugu sports drama of the same name ‘Jersey’ was theatrically released on April 22 after multiple delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Netflix Indi...

Prasar Bharati to air Women’s NBA, NBA G on DD Sports

Prasar Bharati, the public service broadcaster, on Tuesday announced the addition of WNBA and NBA G League programming to its daily offering on Doordarshan (DD) Sports, its free-to-air sports channel. The WNBA and NBA G League programming will be added to DD Sports’ twice daily basketball slots in the morning and evening. In addition to th...

Sony Yay announces new season of ‘Taarak Mehta Ka Chhota Chashma’

The makers of ‘Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah’ launched the third season of the popular children’s animated drama ‘Taarak Mehta Ka Chhota Chashmah’. The story of the new season takes the audience to the world of Tapu and his friends from the Gokuldham Society on their newest adventures, IANS reported. The new season will include the 45 mi...

BARC Rating 18th Week: Sun TV maintains the lead position in all genres

Broadcasting Audience Research Council (BARC) 18th Week (30th April – 6th May 2022) has released its report. In India, Sun TV is continued to dominate the list of top 10 channels for the past two weeks across all genres (All India 2+), the channel registered 2432.91 impressions. Star Maa is in the second spot with 2214.36 impressions, and ...

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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!