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Jio gets TM Forum’s open API platinum conformance agility cert

TM Forum, a global industry association driving digital transformation through collaboration, announced India’s largest mobile network operator Reliance Jio has achieved Open API Platinum conformance certification to drive greater business agility.

Jio has been a member of TM Forum s...

DD FreeDish to get additional funding for border area expansion

The India government will provide additional funding to pubcaster Doordarshan to expand and strengthen its DTH service in the villages located near the country’s borders under a scheme aimed at upping infrastructur...

Chiranjeevi starrer ‘Acharya’ to release in April

South megastar Chiranjeevi's upcoming film 'Acharya' is set to release in cinema halls on April 29, makers have announced. The Telugu action drama, also starring Chiranjeevi's actor son Ram Charan, was earlier scheduled to open theatricall...

Govt. gives tech sector & 5G rollout a push; TRAI spectrum auction report by March

India's budget for fiscal 2022-23 gave a thrust to its technology sector, with the Finance Minister announcing a plan to auction 5G airwaves this year, and pushing for the design and wider local manufacturing of telecoms and electronics products.

Soon after FM Nirmala Sitharaman made...

Virginia Sharma quits JioSaavn

JioSaavn vice president of brand solutions Virginia Sharma has stepped down from her post after a stint of over two years, according to her LinkedIn post. She said, “We delivered double-digit revenue growth throughout the pandemic and built a worl...

BARC Rating 3rd Week: Sun TV maintains lead position in all genres

Broadcasting Audience Research Council (BARC) 3rd Week (15th January – 21st January 2022) has released its report. In India, Tamil GEC Sun TV was the most viewed channel in the third week of January, the channel garnered 3001.92 impressions, s...

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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!