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Jio emerges biggest spender in 5G auction, followed by Airtel

Reliance Industries' Jio emerged as the biggest spender in India's $19 billion 5G spectrum auction, with the top telco player winning airwaves worth $11 billion as the world's number two mobile market gears up for the high-speed wireless network.

India's government aims to begin the ...

Netflix sues creators of alleged ‘Bridgerton’ knockoff

Netflix Inc on Friday sued the creators of an alleged unauthorized musical stage production of its popular period drama “Bridgerton,” accusing them of copyright infringement after building demand for their knockoff on TikTok. The complaint was filed against Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear in the federal court in Washington, three days after a s...

BJP may regain Rajasthan, C’garh; retain Gujarat, MP, HP: India TV poll

Bharatiya Janata Party may return to power in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and retain power in the States of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh if elections were held now, according to assembly seat projection made by India TV-Matrize opinion poll, results of which were telecast on the news channel on Saturday.<...

5G auction: Good response shows industry’s maturity, says Minister

Spectrum auction enters sixth day of bidding; garners nearly Rs 1.50 lakh crore so far

The auction of the 5G spectrum, capable of offering ultra-high-speed internet, entered the sixth day of bidding on Sunday after receiving bids worth Rs. 1,49,966 crore in the first five days from p...

Meta to stop news payments in US; FB News to be on elsewhere

Even as Indian policymakers recently indicated that regulations could be enacted to make Big tech pay news outlets for content, as in places like Australia and some parts of Europe, Meta has said it would stop paying for news content in the US.

Reason for stopping payments for news c...

MPL, Missing Link Trust to launch #SaveOurMissingGirls campaign

Mobile Premier League (MPL) partnered with Missing Link Trust, to launch a campaign called #SaveOurMissingGirls to spread awareness of human trafficking. Announced on the eve of United Nations’ World Day against Trafficking in Persons, the campaign aims ...

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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!