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Reliance Jio, gaming co. Zupee partner for to get games

Telecom company Reliance Jio has on Wednesday announced the strategic partnership with Zupee, a skill-based gaming company, to integrate the latter’s apps into Jio Platforms. This comes soon after Zupee raised $102 million in a Series B funding round from Nepean Capital, WestCap Group, Tomales Bay Capi...

Airtel withdraws corporate structure plans

Bharti Airtel, India’s premier communications solutions provider has withdrawn the scheme of arrangement for the new corporate structure announced in April last year. The company said in a BSE filing, “The board is of the belief that the existing corporate struc...

AirPods Pro 2 could have lossless audio support, sound-making charging case

The second-generation AirPods Pro might support Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC), and could even come with a case that makes a sound to help users to find it. According to ANI, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo revealed this in a note to investors. There currently isn’t an AirPods model that supports lossles...

US federal aviation admin asks telcos to pause 5G rollout

Even as the Indian telecom regulator TRAI is discussing issues involving 5G services and the broadcasting community batting against reallocation of part of C and extended C-band spectrum to telcos, American aviation administrator FAA has asked at least two telcos to delay 5G s...

Airtel, TCS partner for 5G based remote robotic operations

Bharti Airtel, India’s premier communications solutions provider, and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) said they have successfully tested innovative use cases from TCS’ neural manufacturing solutions suite on Airtel’s ultra-fast and low latency 5G network. These solutions help manufacturers build smart, cognitive factories which mimic resilien...

Telecoms: Govt. says 2021 was a year of reforms & new initiatives

Rural tele-density jumped from 44 percent in March 2014 to 59 percent in September 2021. Broadband connections increased to 79 crore (790 million) in 2021 from a shade over six million in March 2014, growing ...

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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!