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Airtel launches Xstream fiber in Ladakh, Port Blair

Bharti Airtel has announced the launch of its fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) broadband service, Airtel Xstream fiber, in Ladakh and Andaman and the Nicobar Islands. The company has become the first private internet service provider to roll out FTTH broadband services in these remote geographies, the company said in a st...

Airtel launches its metaverse multiplex

Bharti Airtel, India’s premier communications solutions provider on Tuesday launched a multiplex on the Partynite metaverse platform. The Xstream multiplex is an extension of Airtel’s Xstream premium offering. Airtel’s Xstream multiplex will be a 20-screen platform with access to content from leading OTT partners available on the applicati...

Vi introduces SonyLIV Premium add-on pack

Telecom service provider Vodafone Idea, has introduced the SonyLIV Premium add-on pack option for its postpaid users.

The new postpaid special pack offers 30-day access to SonyLIV premium content clubbed with 10GB of free data at a monthly subscription fee of Rs100, which gets added ...

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.

Dipika Kaura joins Network18 as editor

Seasoned media professional Dipika Kaura has joined Network18 Group as editor, standards & practices. Kaura has worked with the network earlier as well in several different capacities. She was executive editor and head of the desk at CNN-News18 before she left the group in 2020. She was also ...

YouTube TV app now connects to phone

The American video platform YouTube is rolling out a new feature that might be quite handy for individuals who have the YouTube app installed on their TV. According to ANI, previously, using your phone to control that app required going through the casting process, which was cumbersome. While, the new feature, allows users to easily connec...

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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!