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Telcos launch premium packages to attract users

India's leading mobile carriers are intensifying their efforts. Recently, Reliance Jio rolled out a series of higher-priced prepaid plans with extensive over-the-top (OTT) entertainment offerings, including a premium subscription to Jio Cinema, aiming to attract high-revenue users from rivals Bharti Airtel and Voda...

Excitel launches ‘Drive Safely’ OOH campaign

Excitel, a home internet startup, is taking its successful ‘Drive Safely’ Out-of-Home (OOH) campaign to Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Jaipur. This campaign aims to encourage safe and attentive driving, with mes...

Nokia secures WiFi 6-ready b’band deal with Tata Play Fiber

Nokia secures WiFi 6-ready broadband deal with Tata Play Fiber Finnish telecom gear maker Nokia on Thursday said it has bagged a broadband gear supply deal from Tata Play Fiber to launch India's first WiFi6-ready broadband network. Nokia said with increasing broadband usage in both residential a...

GTPL Hathway records highest quarterly revenues from ops

GTPL Hathway Limited, which announced its financial results for the quarter ending September 30, 2023 on Friday, has said that revenues increased by 8 percent Q-o-Q and 17 percent Y-o-Y.

One of India’s largest digital cable TV service providers and...

S. Korean broadband firm, Netflix end legal disputes over costs

South Korean internet service provider SK Broadband and Netflix said yesterday they were ending all lawsuits with each other, having earlier been in dispute over whether Netflix should pay for costs from increased network traffic and maintenance work. SK Broadband and parent SK Telecom announced in a ...

Global 5G mobile subs surpass 1.3bn, India leads user additions

Global 5G subscriptions grew by 175 million in the second quarter (Q2) while India accounted for the most net addition of overall mobile subscriptions with over seven million new users in the period, a report said. According to the Ericsson Mobility Report, the Q2 additions bring the total number of

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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!