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British antitrust body to examine BT-Discovery Sports deal

Britain's competition watchdog said on Wednesday it had started investigating BT Group's deal to combine its sports broadcasting business with Warner Bros Discovery.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it had until July 28 to make its phase 1 decision on whether the join...

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...

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...

Google Assistant develops speech recognition feature

Google Assistant will soon recognize your voice as the company is working on a personalized speech recognition feature. According to an IANS report, the tool will help Google Assistant get "better at recognizing your frequent words and names." The "Personalised speech recognition" feature will appear in Google Assistant settings. The fe...

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...

Content pirate ThopTV hauled up on Viacom18 complaint

Well, anti-piracy initiatives in India are picking up as content rights holders and TV channels look to bring to task pirates.

The latest in this regard is the police action --- initiated on complaints filed by Viacom18 --- taken against one person involved with Thop TV, an app that ...

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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!