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Airtel announces new pre-paid plans with Disney+Hotstar

Bharti Airtel (Airtel), India’s premier communications solutions provider has revised some of its popular plans to add a Disney+ Hotstar mobile subscription at no extra cost for its prepaid customers. As per the company’s press release, Airtel customers can avail free unlimited access to ...

Netflix to invest more in India says, Reed Hastings

After investing Rs3,000 crore in the past two years, global entertainment major Netflix plans to invest more in India amid growing and intense competition in the streaming industry. Netflix’s CEO Reed Hastings said that investing more in the Indian mark...

Abundantia Entertainment acquires Nirav Modi Book for Series

Abundantia Entertainment acquires Nirav Modi Book for SeriesAbundantia Entertainment acquires Nirav Modi Book for SeriesAbundantia Entertainment is planning a multi-season series on fugitive diamond merchant Nirav Modi, the production house announced on Friday. The company, which is behind films such a...

Discovery Sports secures decade long deal for Laver Cup

Discovery Sports has secured a 10-year agreement to show the Laver Cup exclusively for viewers across Europe from 2021 to 2030, further expanding its comprehensive world-class tennis offering. As per the company’s press release, coverage of the Laver Cup will be scaled to the widest audien...

HBO Max slashes price in limited period offer

AT&T Inc.'s HBO Max streaming service has halved its subscription fees in a limited-period offer in the US to lure back millions of subscribers it lost after dropping out of Amazon.com Inc.'s Prime Video ...

Priyanka Chopra apologises for The Activist; show format changed

Even as CBS and Global Citizen-produced reality show The Activist, which pitted activists against each other in front of a panel of celebrity judges, itself became the target of online activism and got engulfed in a PR firestorm, one of the judges has ap...

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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!