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Pay DTH subscriber base 67 mn as of Dec. 2022: TRAI report

India’s broadcast and telecom regulator TRAI yesterday said that pay DTH services had a cumulative active subscriber base of around 66.62 million in QE December 31, 2022. This is in addition to the customers of Doordarshan’s free-to-air DTH platform, FreeDish.

“Since the introduction...

300 mn Vi users move to Ericsson charging system in India

Ericsson, the Swedish telecommunications giant, has announced that it has yesterday completed the charging consolidation program for Vodafone Idea Ltd (VIL) in India, which will help the telecom company improve customer experience and launch new products and services more quickly in the 5G era. The project, which was implemented through the ...

Airtel 5G Plus goes live in Shimla

Bharti Airtel on Monday announced the launch of its cutting-edge 5G services in Shimla. Airtel 5G services are currently available on Mall Road, Sanjoli, Dhalli, BhattaKufar, Ridge, and Sanjoli Helipad Area, as well as a few other select locations.

Twitter rolls out ‘low quality’ community notes

The microblogging site Twitter has released an algorithm update that detects more low-quality Community Notes, resulting in the suspension of contributor status for those who write unhelpful annotations to provide additional clarifica...

YouTube rolls out separate tabs for Shorts

Video-sharing platform YouTube has rolled out separate tabs for Shorts, live streams and long-form videos on all channel pages.

In a blog post, YouTube announced, “Moving forward, you will no longer see Shorts or live stream...

Space stakeholders urge DoT not to auction satellite spectrum

Stakeholders of the space industry, also comprising satellite companies, have urged India's Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to go for administrative allocation of the satellite spectrum and not auction it, SatCom Industry As...

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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!