London's first cable car service opened its doors to the public on Thursday, a spectacular ride high across the River Thames near the Olympic Park which will help visitors to the Games avoid any jams on the ground.
With controversy over the implementaion of conditional access system raging on, the government is now considering a proposal to amend the Cable Act to regulate broadcasters.\n\n\n\n
A meeting of the Board of Directors of RPG Cables Ltd will be held on January 30, 2003 to consider merger of a subsidiary company, Concepta Cables with the company.
Besides creating political embarrassment, the leak of cables visibly containing informal State-to State coversations by WikiLeaks could see the drying-up of interactions at the foreign office and intelligence agencies levels, writes B Raman
Tata group company VSNL has signed an MoU with leading global telecom firms to construct a new submarine cable linking India, the Middle East and Western Europe.
Talks under way for partnership model to provide last-mile connectivity to 4G users.
Could it be about clout? Given its size and influence, RIL doesn't need the media for that, notes Vanita Kohli-Khandekhar.
Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd has tied up with Australia-based telecommunications carrier Pipe Networks to lay a new submarine cable linking Australia to Guam.
Tata-owned Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd said on Thursday it will invest $600 million to connect two international submarine cable networks.
The cable industry, which reaches over 80 million out of India's 130 million TV-owning homes, is getting ready to strongly oppose the government's move to raise the foreign direct investment limit for direct-to-home service providers from 49 to 74 per cent without doing the same for cable companies.
MTNL and BSNL have joined hands to lay a submarine cable system to connect India to South-East Asia and the West Asia, to provide international bandwidth for their own as well as other commercial requirements.
DTH may change the way we watch TV, they say. We find out if this new technology will end the reign of cable operators and what other options there are for a consumer.
Impressed by the high conviction rate at Mumbai's anti-trafficking court in 2009, the United States officials were of view that such courts should also be set up in other Indian cities, according to a secret US diplomatic cable.
Streaming services like Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hotstar offer attractive price points to the Indian audience. Urvi Malvania reports.
HDFC Bank's latest shareholding data showed that the room for foreign investment has fallen just 5 basis points short of the threshold set by Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) to fully include the stock in its indices. Currently, the index provider has applied an adjustment factor of 0.5 since the foreign room is less than 25 per cent. Removal of the adjustment factor will result in inflows of a massive $4.8 billion (Rs 40,000 crore) into HDFC Bank, according to Brian Freitas, a New Zealand-based analyst with Periscope Analytics.
Former Afghanistan foreign minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta reportedly described former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif as 'the author of Islamic radicalism'.
The Mark-1A will be more sophisticated and capable than the Tejas Mark-1.
A week after Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi declined to meet his grand nephews, the Maran brothers, a cable TV network backed by Karunanidhi's son M K Azhagiri was launched to counter the SUN TV channel owned by the Maran family.
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.
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.
As the digitisation drive enters its second phase, the I&B ministry has asked telecom regulator to come up with measures to control monopolies in the cable TV.
Singapore Telecommunications is considering a bid for UK- based telecom Cable & Wireless Worldwide Plc, says a media report.
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.
A day after reprimanding Zee-Turner for switching off TV channel signals to a subscriber without proper notice
The disruption in the undersea cable network near Italy is likely to hit the broadband connections in India.
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.
This building made entirely from cardboard boxes was designed by French artist Olivier Grossetete and is part of the Novum Summer Festival in Newcastle, Britain.
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.
'Yes, there have not been any express fast bowlers that are coming from the MRF Pace Foundation that we used to have back in the years.' 'But that's not going to happen anymore. Now, in the next few years, you are gonna see a lot of really good fast bowlers coming out from the MRF Pace Foundation again.'
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.
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