The Indian government on Wednesday approved a proposal to conduct 5G spectrum auction by July-end, while stating that part of the bandwidth would be reserved for private captive networks to spur a new wave of innovations. Until now, according to Reuters, India's telecoms services have been run by specialist companies in a market dominated by ...
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Airtel Xstream to target 20mn paid subs; up regional content game
Telecom operator Bharti Airtel has said its video streaming service, Airtel Xstream, has achieved a two million paid subscriber mark, demonstrating a strong pace of growth as an OTT aggregator platform.
Airtel Xstream offers a bouquet of OTT platforms to consumers across mobile and large screen formats.“We are the fas...
Instagram to nudge teens away from harmful content
Meta-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram said that teenage users on the platform will start to see nudges that will encourage them to switch to a different topic if they are repeatedly looking at the same type of content on Explore. This nudge is designed to encourage teens to discover something new and excludes certain topics that may be ...
Republic Media raises alarm over fake company SM handles
Arnab Goswami-led Republic Media Network has hit out at social media handles that have been impersonating as the real one and indulging in plagiarism, while warning such deviants of legal actions.
The media company also said that it has flagged such impersonators with social media pl...
IPL rights sell for $ 6.2 bn; winners Disney, Viacom18, Times Internet
The Indian cricket board BCCI on Tuesday reaffirmed its status as a cricketing behemoth by securing one of the biggest broadcast deals in the history of the sport, fetching an eye-popping Rs. 48,390 crore (USD 6.2 billion) through IPL media rights for a five-year period, starting 2023.
ABP Network, IIM Indore ink MoU to combat fake news
ABP Network on Monday entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Indore to strengthen both parties’ professionalism and contribution towards the development of an informed and open society through a mutual academic-practice collaboration framework. The agreement aims for both parties collect...