Regulation - Indian Broadcasting World

TRAI open house on satellite spectrum to be held on July 14

To auction or administratively allocate satellite spectrum for communications and entertainment services? That’s the question that has divided the industry stakeholders, including service providers and users, in India.

After receiving 64 submissions on the issue (the consultation pap...

India’s b’band subs up 0.52% in April-23 vs. March: TRAI

India’s total broadband subscribers increased from 846.57 million at the end of March-23 to 850.94 million at the end of April- 23 with a monthly growth rate of 0.52 percent, according to data put out yesterday by broadcast and telecom regulator TRAI.

73% respondents on Trai’s consultation paper seek satcom spectrum allocation without auction: ISpA

According to the space sector business association ISpA, around three-fourths of respondents, including Starlink, Amazon, and OneWeb, supported the allocation of satellite communication spectrum through an administrative process rather than an auction. Reliance Jio and Vodafone have opposed the allocation of...

Pay DTH subscriber base 67 mn as of Dec. 2022: TRAI report

India’s broadcast and telecom regulator TRAI yesterday said that pay DTH services had a cumulative active subscriber base of around 66.62 million in QE December 31, 2022. This is in addition to the customers of Doordarshan’s free-to-air DTH platform, FreeDish.

“Since the introduction...

India b’band subscriber base 846.57 mn as on March’23: TRAI

India’s total broadband subscriber base increased to 846.57 million at the end of March 2023, showing a monthly growth rate of 0.86 percent, latest set of data released by broadcast and telecom regulator TRAI said yesterday. In February 2023, the subscribers base was 839.33 million with the top five serv...

TRAI suggestions on EoDB in telecom, b’cast sectors progressive: BIF

Regulator TRAI's recent recommendations on 'Ease of Doing Business' (EoDB) in the telecom and broadcasting sectors are extremely comprehensive, greatly facilitating, and will aid in rapid growth of the digital economy, according to industry body Broadband India Forum (BIF)...

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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!