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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

HBO renews S2 of ‘The Gilded Age’

The American premium cable network HBO, owned by WarnerMedia, has renewed the historical drama ‘The Gilded Age’ the network announced. According to PTI, the news comes three weeks after the New York-set period drama premiered on the WarnerMedia-backed premium cable network. The network said the nine-ep...

Manoranjan Group to launch Bhojpuri TV channel

With a long-standing legacy of running successful channels across the country, Manoranjan Group has lined up for launch Manoranjan Prime, a new Bhojpuri TV channel in Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh. The formal launch is scheduled for March of this year. Manoranjan Prime is a general entertainment channel (GEC) that will offer Bhojpuri ...

Streamer Eros Now partners with Airtel Xstream

Streaming platform Eros Now on Wednesday announced a partnership with communications solutions provider Airtel, to bring the Eros Now OTT content library to Airtel Xstream Premium, a news aggregation oriented video streaming service launched by Airtel. The partnership allows Eros Now to expand its reach further by tapping into Airtel’s over 3...

BARC Rating 6th Week: Star Maa regains top spot in all genres

Broadcasting Audience Research Council (BARC) 6th Week (5th February – 11th February 2022) has released its report. In India, Star Maa who gets the third spot from the past five weeks has backed again to take their seat of the fir...

Google to retain ad tracking tool till ’24; exploring options

Alphabet Inc.'s Google on Wednesday said it would keep alive for at least two years a tracking technology on its Android phones that is relied upon by advertisers, easing speculation about its plans after Apple Inc. frustrated the ad industry by restricting a similar tool.

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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!