Consumer mindset and lack of awareness and also the fact that the existing players -cable and DTH -will make life very difficult for us. They are very aggressive and create confusion on IPTV, through newspaper articles.
Singapore Telecommunications is considering a bid for UK- based telecom Cable & Wireless Worldwide Plc, says a media report.
The Delhi high court on Wednesday asked the Centre, Trai and Star India Pvt Ltd to respond to a petition challenging the January 9 government notification bringing broadcast and cable services under Trai's jurisdiction.
In his post, Gandhi urged people to elect the Congress and said, "Rajasthan will choose free treatment. Rajasthan will choose cheaper gas cylinder. Rajasthan will choose interest-free agricultural loan. Rajasthan will choose English education. Rajasthan will choose OPS. Rajasthan will choose caste census."
Sunil Mittal promoted Bharti Televentures has signed an agreement to join the South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe-4
Bharti Airtel and five other telecom companies will lay the US-Asia undersea cable, with an estimated cost of $300 million.
Chandra said WWIL, perceived as trailing the pack in Mumbai, had actually accounted for 75,000 set-top boxes in Mumbai out of the 150,000 installed in the new conditional access system environment being ushered into the city.
Encouraged by the response it received for the first phase of Digitisation of cable TV homes, the information & broadcasting ministry is now gearing up for the second phase, which would cover 38 cities across 15 states.
The CEOs have been discussing a collaboration for some time, according to two people with knowledge of the situation.
The disruption in the undersea cable network near Italy is likely to hit the broadband connections in India.
A day after reprimanding Zee-Turner for switching off TV channel signals to a subscriber without proper notice
Cable television charges across the country will go up by 4 per cent from January 1, 2006 with broadcast regulator TRAI allowing operators and broadcasters to hike prices on account of inflation.
Future Gaming and Hotel Services whose director is the lottery magnate Santiago Martin is the top purchaser of electoral bonds having purchased bonds worth Rs 1,368, according to data uploaded by the Election Commission of India on its website on Thursday.
Cable TV channels in lakhs of homes in Bangalore went blank on Thursday as operators went on an indefinite strike, demanding that the Karnataka government withdraw the 150 per cent increase in entertainment tax.
From the retail pack, Future Group firm Pantaloon Retail surged 32.61 per cent to Rs 209, while Provogue India gained 17.83 per cent to Rs 18.90 on the BSE.
The lackadaisical approach on part of the management of Oreva company resulting in "one of the most severe and tragic human calamities" cannot be countenanced, the SIT said.
While the responses of the candidates were predictable, depending on which side they belonged to, an interesting point slipped through when Rahul Shewale cited the Dharavi Redevelopment Project as a scheme that would add to Mumbai's importance. No big infrastructural project in Mumbai, he said, could be successful without the Centre's nod.
'Subjecting each such creative content to scrutiny will impose burdens on the OTT platforms and impact user experience.'
The Mahindra group announced on Friday the sale of the cable accessories division of its Pune-based Mahindra Engineering and Chemical Company Ltd to 3M Electro and Communication India Pvt Ltd.
Analysts have given a thumbs up to the Reliance Industries (RIL) and Walt Disney Co. (Disney) proposed a joint venture (JV). The stock of the Mukesh Ambani-controlled company gained nearly 1.5 per cent on Thursday to Rs 2,952 levels as compared to the S&P BSE Sensex that traded marginally weak, down 0.2 per cent to 72,172 levels in intra-day trades.
The combined market capitalisation of Adani group companies increased to Rs 15.11 trillion last week. As a result, Gautam Adani's family raced ahead of Mukesh Ambani of Reliance Industries, reclaiming the title of India's wealthiest promoter.
Investments worth more than Rs 80 trillion are expected in roads, railways and urban infrastructure between now and FY30 and the supply chains helping to build this core infrastructure are also readying to cash in on the growth. In the first half of the current financial year, orders worth more than Rs 2.6 trillion were tendered in the roads and railways segment alone, according to data sourced from ICRA Ratings and Research. "India's transportation infrastructure sector is in high gear, and we enjoy a sizable share of it," said S V Desai, whole time director and senior executive vice president (Civil Infrastructure) for Larsen & Toubro.
Cable tariffs across the country are set to go up with the TRAI clarifying that operators can hike charges in view of the increase in service tax and the imposition of education cess in Budget.
Social media giant Meta Platforms and Bharti Airtel on Monday announced a collaboration to jointly invest in telecom infrastructure to cater to the rising demand of high speed data and digital services in India. The announcement comes on the back of telecom operators' demand to share revenue with service providers to build networks. "Airtel and Meta will jointly invest in global connectivity infrastructure and CPaaS (communications platform as a service) based new-age digital solutions to support the emerging requirements of customers and enterprises in India," the statement said.
The Centre has asked BSNL to study the feasibility of setting up country's fourth\nsubmarine cable landing station on the eastern coast of Haldia, West Bengal.
In the run-up to the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, political parties are extensively using social media to propagate their achievements and seek support from voters.
India's unilateral offer was again relayed by the then Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon in his meeting with the Special US Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke on February 16, 2009 in New Delhi, wherein the latter praised India's developmental role in Afghanistan.
Cable operators issued a 48-hour ultimatum to authorities to lift the ban on four Pak channels -- Geo, ARY, PTV and Aaj -- or they would suspend their operation in the Valley. The authorities said the ban order was issued on the directions from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. The cable operators, in retaliation, stopped airing Indian or foreign channel, including sports channels.
Airtel says to avail alternative routes to keep services on.
The outfit suggested that the government amend the Information Technology Act to classify all such content as pornography, which people should only be able to access by punching in their Aadhaar details or their fingerprints. Archis Mohan reports
Unveiled by whistle-blower website WikiLeaks, four thousand diplomatic cables from the United States embassy in New Delhi reveal a difficult but increasingly warm relationship between India, an emerging power anxious about its security despite its size and increasing wealth, and the US, a superpower that is keen to be friends but very much on its own terms.
A Pakistani news agency at the centre of controversy over a report based on fake US diplomatic cables containing crude anti-India propaganda has sacked an editor for "fabricating a false story."
BPO and IT services across India remained largely unaffected.
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