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MUMBAI: Emblaze Ltd has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Orca Interactive Ltd has signed a licensing agreement with India’s I-Spatial Communications Pvt Ltd for its...
MUMBAI: Shin Satellite, which plans to launch Ipstar between mid-February and mid-March and belongs to Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s family, will wholesale services to resellers...
MUMBAI: US-based DirecTV has announced its plans for the launch of four next-generation satellites, on Wednesday. The first two satellites, Spaceway 1 and Spaceway 2, will...
MUMBAI: Despite indications to the contrary, India’s broadcast and cable regulator, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), looks to be making a move on. The Trai...
MUMBAI: Cricket is hotly followed not only among Indians in India but also among the NRI population. US-based Echostar Communications and its Dish Network are trying...
MUMBAI: “Telemart isn’t like any other conference. The focus here is on actual trade and not just company plugs. In fact, the two-hour conference held every...
MUMBAI: Telecom Regulatory Authority of Indian (Trai), which submitted its draft recommendations on Unified Licensing on 6 August, today justified the inclusion of ‘broadcasting services’ under...
MUMBAI: Thomson has announced that it is acquiring a major stake in Nokia/CITIC Digital Technology (NCDT). Thomson delivers integrated solutions (technologies, equipment and services) for the...
MUMBAI: The US-based communications & networking research and consulting firm Yankee Group has predicted that pay-TV subscriptions in the Asia Pacific region will increase to $22.1...
NEW DELHI: The cable operators are at it once again and this time the allegations are more precise and mince no words. From conditional access to...
MUMBAI: While the issue of addressability is still to be sorted out in the country one delivery method that has promise is broadband. At this afternoon’s...
MUMBAI: Make no mistake about it, broadband is coming. And it is not just Reliance Infocomm, which is scheduled to unleash its Netway offering at the...
MUMBAI: The US-based digital video recorder (DVR) maker TiVo’s stock price fell more than 14 per cent as DirecTV sold its stake in TiVo. The sale...
MUMBAI: Intelsat today announced that BT’s new satellite broadband service will be supported by the Intelsat system. An integral part of BT’s overall broadband strategy, the...
NEW DELHI: The telecommunication ministry is working on a plan that would attempt to bring down the entry prices of digital subscriber lines (DSL), used for...
MUMBAI: Is the idiot box scoring over the fare on broadband in terms of the number of hours being spent with it even today? Previous research...
MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has recommended nondiscriminatory local loop unbundling (LLU) in a time bound manner for both Shared Unbundling and Bit Stream...
MUMBAI:The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India is now mulling if it should make it mandatory for broadcasters to have open access of their contents on non-discriminatory...
MUMBAI: Convergence in the country is going to be a reality sooner than later. Broadband services provider Broadband Pacenet is coming out with its latest project...
MUMBAI: Broadband subscribers exceeded 100 million globally at the end of 2003 according to RHK’s latest report from its broadband access networks programme. The report noted...
NEW DELHI: Top experts in telecom have forecast that soon converged networks would deliver personalized services like video-on-demand, music-of-choice and financial services to millions of users...
MUMBAI: “If you want to dream, dare to dream big.” Thus Reliance Industries’ chairman and managing director Mukesh Ambani, paraphrasing his father Dhirubhai, described the plans...
MUMBAI: Frost & Sullivan has released a forward-looking white paper that examines broadband requirements and coverage in the US. This study describes the key role of...
MUMBAI: “Broadband as well as Net advertising has arrived, especially in Asia, and the popularity of paid web searches is growing.” This was the tone adopted...
NEW DELHI: India should target a minimum of 10 million subscribers by 2010 and 35 million subscribers by 2020 in urban India across homes, enterprises and...
MUMBAI: In the UK the BBC has major plans up its sleeve as far as broadband is concerned. It will launch its major broadband-enabled public service...
CANNES: In a world that’s changing so rapidly with many new modes of delivery for content like mobiles, broadband, digital TV, HDTV, interactive TV, hand-held devices,...
MUMBAI: The game show Who Wants to Be A Millionaire has received a shot in the arm courtesy broadband. AOL UK and Celador International have announced...
MUMBAI:The broadband show for new generation networks, the 12th Convergence India 2004 is all set to make convergence happen. Touted as the largest telecom event in...
MUMBAI: The constraint on broadband means that video streaming over the Internet is still limited in its scope in India. Globally however, the picture is the...
MUMBAI: Given below, is the letter addressed to Disney’s Michael D Eisner from Comcast’s president and CEO Brian L Roberts. I am writing following our conversation...
MUMBAI: Given below is the response in full issued by the Indian broadcasting Foundation to the Telecom Authority of India: Without Prejudice To The Preliminary Submissions,...
MUMBAI: It was on Wednesday that the Telecom Authority of India (TRAI) chairman Pradip Baijal set the cat among the “cable pigeons” when he declared that...
MUMBAI: Seems like a good year in broadband terms. While the number of global broadband subscribers grown 72 per cent in 2002, the republic of Korea,...
WASHINGTON: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has initiated a proceeding proposing rules for satellite services on vessels. This includes broadband services. The proposals implement the results...
HONG KONG: Asiasat and Connexion By Boeing, a business division of The Boeing Company have announced the signing of a lease agreement As per the arrangement...
LONDON: In a joint venture with Orbit Data Systems Limited (ODSL), Intelsat announced plans for a two-way, satellite-based broadband Internet access service to be available directly...
HONG KONG: Hong Kong Broadband Network (HKBN) has launched a new pay-TV service. The endeavour is aimed at realising the “triple-play” strategy, thus bringing a significant...
HONG KONG: Asiasat and Connexion By Boeing, a business division of The Boeing Company have announced the signing of a lease agreement As per the arrangement...
LONDON: The BBC is looking to take advantage of the digital revolution and the rapid pace of broadband by opening its archive. At the Edinburgh Television...
MUMBAI: Riding the broadband wave, Walt Disney’s Internet Group’s (WDIG) has tied up with Terra Lycos in Spain to offer free of charge, a portal with...
LONDON: A new report shows that European pay-television revenues will triple in the next five years from Euro 22 billion to Euro 77 billion. The revenue...
MUMBAI: Even as several multi system operators have announced tie ups with global conditional access companies and vendors for imports, a few Indian set top manufacturing...
BOSTON: Awareness of high-definition television (HDTV) among US consumers is quite high, according to a newly-released Dove Consulting study. Eighty one per cent of survey respondents...
MUMBAI: The broadcasting and cable fraternity is certainly not smiling. To add to their existing problems in an evolving market such as India, non-media companies are...
CALIFORNIA: Amidst unfavourable economic conditions and the melt down in the telecommunications industry, the satellite transponder capacity leasing market in Europe, the Middle East and Africa...
CONNECTICUT: PanAmSat, the premier provider of global video and data broadcasting services via satellite has reported revenues of $812.3 million for the year ended 31 December...
MUMBAI: All TV and no play makes Jack a dull boy. That’s a modern adage that Milestone Interactive Software Ltd (MISL) is hoping to cash in...
Star TV India is bringing in television industry veteran Altaf Ali Mohammed to look after its digital platform – DTH and broadband – in India. Mohammed...
PARIS: Eutelsat, one of the worlds leading satellite operators has brought new capacity into service for broadband Internet access and direct-to-home (DTH) satellite television broadcasting in...
