MUMBAI: Mauj Telecom has received a funding of $10 million from WestBridge Capital Partners, Intel Capital and Sequoia Capital. WestBridge Capital Partners led the round of...
BANGALORE: Several cable operators in Karnataka are against migration to Next Generation Networks (NGN) as they fear it will threaten their business. According to Karnataka State...
MUMBAI: Seoul-based high-tech company Samsung Electronics is facing legal action from the big five US movie studios which claims one of its DVD players can be...
MUMBAI: The National Cable and Telecommunications Association (NCTA) in the US has announced that its theme for its annual show will be Cable: A Great American...
MUMBAI: Market research firm GfK Asia has released its 2005 Year End Pan Asian Consumer Electronics Data Summary. This highlights the trends in the region’s consumer...
MUMBAI: Enraged by the television media’s alleged negligence of serious issues in the North East region, cable TV operators in Assam have blacked out three national...
MUMBAI:The US-based CDMA Development Group (CDG) has reported that the CDMA2000 subscriber base reached 225 million users worldwide at the end of 2005, a 25 million...
MUMBAI: The Sun TV network-backed South Asia FM and Anil Ambani-controlled Adlabs Films Ltd have surrendered 27 and 12 FM radio frequencies respectively to adhere to...
MUMBAI: Ivanka Trump will join her father Donald Trump who hosts US broadcaster NBC’s business based reality show The Apprentice for boardroom duty on 6 March....
MUMBAI: After Siticable, it is the turn of Hathway Cable & Datacom to take the acquisition route. The Rajan Raheja promoted multi system operator (MSO) has...
MUMBAI: Cable operators in Mumbai have pushed Star One into a higher frequency, forcing the channel to move out of its prime band location in all...
MUMBAI: Tamil Nadu Assembly has approved the state government take over of the administration of cable television network (Including Multiple Service Optical Transport System) bill, 2006. ...
MUMBAI: US cable firm Comcast in conjunction with fitness expert Jake Steinfeld and equity partners New Balance and Time Warner Cable, has launched Exercise TV. This...
Meet Malliswari…young,smart,highly educated and with a strong personality. Yet marriage sees her trapped like a bird in a golden cage, dreams shattered,harassed by her mother-in-law at...
The opera singer Jose Carreras has told BBC World that although the Three Tenors would be “quite happy” to perform at football’s World Cup in June,...
MUMBAI: Broadcom Corporation, dealing in wired and wireless broadband communications semiconductors, has announced the industry’s first front-end cable TV set-top box chip with integrated channel bonding...
NEW DELHI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) wants 74 per cent foreign direct investment (FDI) to be allowed in cable TV which would bring...
MUMBAI: Cable TV networks are slashing prices and working out consumer friendly schemes to push their digital set-top boxes (STBs), ahead of the launch of Tata...
MUMBAI: The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) has announced results of 2005 Annual General Meeting elections in Singapore to the CASBAA Council of...
MUMBAI: Feeling the threat that direct-to-home (DTH) would offer, cable operators met in Mumbai today to discuss how they could beat the competition. They were particularly...
MUMBAI: American organisation Consumers for Cable Choice has announced that 15 new groups have joined its effort to bring further competition to the US cable television...
MUMBAI: RealNetworks, which provides digital media services and software, has unveiled its next generation Helix Server for mobile enterprises. The Helix Server Unlimited is Real’s enterprise...
MUMBAI: RealNetworks, which provides digital media services and software, has unveiled its next generation Helix Server for mobile enterprises. The Helix Server Unlimited is Real’s enterprise...
MUMBAI: Facing an uphill task to sell digital set-top boxes (STBs), Hinduja-owned, Incablenet, has decided to offer them free on a trial basis to their direct...
MUMBAI: China Central Television (CCTV), will, launch the country’s first digital high-definition television (HDTV) channel on, 1 January 2006. The pay channel will broadcast 18 hours...
MUMBAI: SCM Microsystems, Inc. has been selected by Korea Digital Cable Media Center Co (KDMC), South Korea’s digital cable service provider, to supply OpenCable compliant CableCard...
MUMBAI: Cablelabs in the US is teaming with Cox Communications and the American-Israel Chamber of Commerce to host the second annual US-Israel Broadband Business Exchange. The...
MUMBAI: US media firm NBC Universal Cable Entertainment will launch a crime cable network Sleuth in January 2006. The upcoming entertainment cable channel will be dedicated...
MUMBAI: With US media regulatory body The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) mandating that broadcast signals be digitised, opportunities for switcher vendors in North America have opened...
MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) chairman Pradip Baijal is keen to have competition in the cable TV sector. And he feels it is...
MUMBAI: India suddenly seems to have emerged as the preferred destination over China for the media bigwigs. Soon after News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch expressed discontent...
MUMBAI: The world’s most valuable media company Google, which is worth around $91 billion and Comcast are looking to jointly buy a stake in Time Warner’s...
MUMBAI: Jagjit Singh Kohli is joining Siticable as CEO. He will be inducted on the board of ETC Networks, which Zee Telefilms had acquired in 2002,...
MUMBAI: After four consecutive years of decline and steady erosion, Canada’s cable industry saw a modest increase in subscribers in 2004. Market research firm Statistics Canada...
BANGALORE: Cable signals are back in Karnataka as the state’s Multi System Operators (MSO) have called off their indefinite strike. This follows an assurance from the...
BANGALORE: Karnataka’s Multi System Operators (MSOs), switched off cable television signals today from 5 pm in protest against what they term as the “arbitrary demand of...
MUMBAI: Market valuations of the media industry in India has potential to go up but chaos at the distribution end is pulling it down, investment bankers...
MUMBAI: The Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (Casbaa) has launched an intensive enforcement campaign against Philippines’ pirate pay-TV operators, starting with police raids on...
MUMBAI: Maharashtra revenue minister Narayan Rane is threatening to take action against cable operators who underreport their subscriber figures. The way out: a survey to expose...
MUMBAI: The digital television revolution in the UK will change the way people consume TV. The challenge will rest in how broadcasters and advertisers respond to...
MUMBAI: Ravi Mansukhani is put in charge of IndusInd Media & Communications Ltd (IMCL), the Hinduja TMT subsidiary company which handles cable TV business under the...
MUMBAI: Canada-based Rogers Cable has added Sony Entertainment Television Asia to its extensive list of multicultural programming available to Rogers Digital Cable customers in Ontario. ...
MUMBAI: The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) has announced a new initiative to encourage practical, high-end solutions to the challenges of the new...
MUMBAI: Siticable has dropped plans to enter into a deal with Punj family-controlled Spectranet as the talks prolonged for too long. No settlement could...
MUMBAI: Nielsen Media Research’s new findings revealed that the number of ethnic television homes in the US has increased significantly since last year. Because of more...
MUMBAI: Hathway Cable & Datacom has lowered down the entry price of its broadband services and waived off rental cost on cable modems as part of...
As Ganpat Gaikwad stands in front of the slums in Kalyan, a town on the outskirts of Mumbai, he shakes his head in disbelief at the...
MUMBAI: Hathway Cable & Datacom may get the exclusive rights to use and lease out electric poles in Hyderabad and Secunderabad for laying optic cable. In...
MUMBAI: Hathway has announced an attractive combo package for its digital cable service and high speed broadband Internet. The combined initial payment of the digital cable...
For almost one year, IndusInd Media & Communications (IMCL) has been an organisation in turmoil. Several senior executives have left the company, frustrated at the slow...

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