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TRAI flays channel rates announced by pay TV broadcasters

Terming criticism of its revised tariff regime or NTO 2.0 as “a fictional pretention” as it does not entail or prescribe grounds for increasing prices of TV channels, broadcast carriage regulator TRAI said Thursday...

BARC: TV ads volumes post strong growth July-Sept’21

Ad volumes on TV continued to post a healthy growth, with the July-Sept quarter registering 461 million seconds of advertising, which is the highest this year, new data from BARC India said Thursday.

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New movies boost HBO Max; parent AT&T adds wireless subs in 5G push

AT&T Inc.'s quarterly revenue and phone subscriber additions beat market expectations on Thursday, on increased demand for its phone and internet service and steady growth for its streaming platform HB...

Vi partners with Athonet to test 5G

Leading telecom service provider VodafoneIdea (Vi) and a private LTE and 5G solutions provider, Athonet, have joined hands to test 5G-based solutions for developing industry 4.0 use cases, using the 5G trial spectrum allocated by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT). The partnership with Athonet ...

Times Network announces channel rates with 8 new bouquets

Times Network, part of one of the Times of India group, on Thursday announced the rates of its 13 TV channels to conform to regulator TRAI’s tariff regime (NTO 2.0). Though, it kept all the prices within the cap of Rs. 12. The new rates will...

Bombay HC directs Zee to call shareholders meet

The Bombay High Court on Thursday asked Subhash Chandra-founded Zee Entertainment Enterprises to call an EGM or a shareholders’ meeting as requisitioned by the company's largest shareholder Invesco.

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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!