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59% US OTT subs prefer 1-bill-1-account for various services

With the NAB show beginning this week in the US, Parks Associates announced a new study, Home Service Bundles: OTT as a Value-Added Service, which reveals 59 percent of OTT subscribers reported they prefer one bill and one account for all of their home subscription services, while 48 percent feel their home internet service provider adds more va...

Big Tech will have to tackle illegal content or face hefty EU fine

Alphabet unit Google, Meta and other large online platforms will have to do more to tackle illegal content or risk hefty fines under new Internet rules agreed between European Union countries and EU lawmakers on Saturday. The agreement came after more than 16 hours of negotiations. The Digital Services Act (DSA) is the second prong of EU anti...

WhatsApp is testing ‘last seen’ feature from specific users

WhatsApp has decided to include an option of letting users hide their ‘last seen’ from particular users, in the most recent update of the iOS app. Turning off the ‘last seen’ a status is a privacy option allowing users to select whether or not to let their contacts know since they last used the app. According to ANI, WhatsApp could limit w...

Cinema created an identity for India in the world: Anurag Thakur

Cinema is India’s soft power, which has many benefits, and has helped in creation of an identity of the country abroad, Minister for Information and Broadcasting Anurag Thakur said Thursday. “Indian cinema is our country’s soft power, which rules the hearts of millions of people across the world,” Thakur said in Mumbai during a visit to the N...

Google introduces new Chrome Web Store extension badges

American tech giant, Google has announced two new extension badges for the Chrome Web Store to help users find better extensions. It has announced the Featured badge and the Established Publisher badge. Both badges are live on the Chrome Web Store. “As our goal is to help users find great extensions, publishers cannot pay to receive either...

WrestleMania38 brings in record viewers for Sony sports channels

Sony’s sports channels in India seem to have hit pay dirt with WrestleMania 38 as over 50 million Indians watched the event, including the return debut of Indian wrestler Veer Mahan. Figures released by Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) India highlighted that the show was seen by 56.1 million people in India on the Sony Sports Networ...

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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!