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ABP Asmita to organize flagship Maha Samvaad conclave

India’s fastest-growing Gujarati news channel, ABP Asmita, is organizing its flagship conclave ‘Asmita Maha Samvaad’ on June 3 in Ahmedabad. The conclave creates a platform for the leaders to discuss the State’s most pressing issues, address public concerns and outline the way forward. The conclave will feature key Gujarat Government minis...

Voot unveils teaser of show historic India-Aussie Test series

Voot Select is all geared up to take cricket aficionados on a nail-biting journey of the 2020-21 India tour of Australia in its upcoming web series,‘Bandon Mein Tha Dum’.

Ahead of its release, the platform launched the riveting trailer of the Neeraj Pandey directorial at its...

MIB tweaks mandatory carriage rules for DD channels

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) has effected some changes in the rules relating to carriage of pubcaster Doordarshan TV channels on a mandatory basis by the distribution platforms in India.

In an advisory, posted on the Ministry’s website Wednesday, MIB said some o...

‘Brahmastra’ makers reveal first look at major characters

‘Brahmastra’ team on Tuesday released the first looks of megastar Amitabh Bachchan, Nagarjuna Akkineni, and Mouni Roy from the much-anticipated fantasy adventure movie. The special video, also starring Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt, was shared by the director of the film Ayan Mukerji and Dharma Productions on the ninth anniversary of ...

Prasar Bharati, IIT-K to organise event on b’cast & 5G b’band convergence

With the view to bring telecom and broadcasting policy makers together to discuss India’s way forward on the road to convergence of broadcast and 5G broadband, a conclave is been organised today by the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) along with Prasar Bharati and Telecommunications Standards Develo...

Pvt. telcos’ FY23 revenues to jump by 25% on H2 tariff hike: Crisil

The country's top three private telecom operators will resort to another round of tariff hikes in the second half of the current fiscal and will close FY23 with revenue growth of 20-25 percent, a report said on Tuesday. Growth in average revenue per user is essential for the industry to invest in the network and s...

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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!