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TRAI suggests infra status for b’cast, cable sectors; increased govt synergy for space services

TRAI yesterday came out with a slew of suggestions on further easing of doing business, recommending infrastructure status for the broadcast and cable sectors, apart from having more synergies amongst government agen...

MIB Secy Chandra bats for kids’ early exposure to AVGC skills

Information and Broadcasting Secretary Apurva Chandra yesterday made a strong pitch for introducing students to the opportunities in the audio-visual, gaming and comics (AVGC) sector to allow them to hone their creative skills to make a career in the emerging area.

MIB issues fresh warning on carriage of betting, gambling ads

The Ministry of Information & Broadcasting (MIB) yesterday advised media entities and online advertisement intermediaries to refrain from carrying advertisements and promotional content of betting p...

Kerala HC dismisses AIDCF plea against TRAI tariff order

The Kerala High Court yesterday dismissed a petition filed by MSO body AIDCF against regulator TRAI’s amended tariff guidelines that were announced in November 2022.

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TRAI suggests incentives, govt. sops to boost b’cast sector hardware manufacturing

Indian broadcast and telecom regulator TRAI has proposed that Telecom Engineering Centre (TEC) should be made responsible for standardising all broadcast equipment, while saying that other government organisat...

TRAI directs telcos to report major network outages

The telecom regulator TRAI directed telecom operators on Tuesday to begin reporting network outages that impact all consumers in a district. The directive has gone into action immediately. "...access service providers have been directe...

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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!