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Colors launches new show ‘Swaran Ghar’

The Indian pay television GEC channel Colors TV is all set to launch its new family drama show, ‘Swaran Ghar’.

Set in Chandigarh, it chronicles the life of a middle-aged woman Swaran (played by Sangita Ghosh), and her husband Kanwaljeet (played by Ronit Bose Roy) whose lives...

Amitabh Bachchan turns narrator for ‘Radhe Shyam’

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan has turned narrator for the Hindi version of Prabhas's upcoming film ‘Radhe Shyam’, the makers announced on Tuesday. Directed by Radha Krishna Kumar, the multilingual romantic drama is set in Europe in the...

Airtel joins undersea cable club to scale up network

Bharti Airtel (Airtel), India’s premier communications solutions provider, on Monday said that it has joined the SEA-ME-WE-6 undersea cable consortium to scale up its high-speed global network capacity to serve India’s fast-growing digital economy.

The 19,200 Rkm SEA-ME-WE-6 will connect Singapore and France, an...

Airtel, Jio well placed to benefit from metaverse surge: report

The transition of the digital ecosystem to the metaverse, where a person will feel immersed in a virtual world, will push data usage by 20 times across the globe by 2032 and telecom operators Bharti Airtel and Relianc...

British sports media firm DAZN gets $4.3bn capital injection

DAZN Group announced a $4.3 billion capital injection by its backer and billionaire investor Len Blavatnik's firm on Friday, as the British sports media company looks to expand into recreational betting, gaming and non-fungible tokens.

Sports broadcasters have been investing billions...

India’s mobile, b’band user base decline in Dec-21: TRAI data

The mobile user count in India fell by 12.8 million in December 2021 compared to the previous month, with Reliance Jio and Vodafone Idea suffering subscriber losses, even as Bharti Airtel added customers, TRAI data showed on Thursday.

Reliance Jio lost about 12.9 million wireless

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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!