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Jio emerges biggest spender in 5G auction, followed by Airtel

Reliance Industries' Jio emerged as the biggest spender in India's $19 billion 5G spectrum auction, with the top telco player winning airwaves worth $11 billion as the world's number two mobile market gears up for the high-speed wireless network.

India's government aims to begin the ...

OMTV partners with Hubhopper for audio podcast series

India’s first Sanatan storytelling platform OMTV partners with Hubhopper, the largest podcast hosting, creation, and distribution platform, for introducing new audio podcast features on their app. OMTV will set off the collaboration with 3 new shows on July 29 and be added to Hubhopper. The podcast is under a newly added podcast feature, w...

Voot Select unveils ‘The Great Weddings of Munnes’ trailer

Streaming platform Voot Select has released the trailer of a unique, bone-tickling family comedy titled, ‘The Great Weddings of Munnes’. Starring the popular OTT stars Abhishek Banerjee and Barkha Singh in the lead, the much-anticipated show is slated to release on August 4, exclusively on Voot Select. ‘The Great Weddings of Munnes’ is a s...

OMG India appoints Anand Chakravarthy as CGO

Omnicom Media Group (OMG) India on Tuesday announced the appointment of Anand Chakravarthy as its new chief growth officer. He will report to Kartik Sharma, group CEO of OMG India. Chakravarthy is set to use his strategic foresight and over two decades of rich industry experience to create new opportunities for growth and play an instrumen...

Rachin Khanijo joins SET as Marketing Head

Sony Pictures Networks India has appointed Rachin Khanijo as the Marketing Head of Sony Entertainment Television (SET). Khanijo comes from Beginnen Media where he was the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). At Beginnen Media, he was responsible for Marketing, On-Air Promotions, Research, Corporate & ...

Malaysian satco Measat announces senior appointments

Malaysia-based MEASAT Satellite Systems Sdn. Bhd. has announced two senior appointments: Ganendra Selvaraj as Chief Commercial Officer and Jeevan Rao as AVP, Network Engineering and Operations.

Selvaraj first joined MEASAT in 2004 and holds a Bach...

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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!