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  • HGS shines bright as Nxtdigital and One bag top honours at BCS Ratna 2025

    HGS shines bright as Nxtdigital and One bag top honours at BCS Ratna 2025

    MUMBAI: When it rains, it pours and for Hinduja Global Solutions (HGS), the shower has been of accolades. Its media and broadband arms, Nxtdigital and Oneott International LTD. (OIL), have walked away with top honours at the 11th BCS Ratna Awards 2025, one of India’s most coveted forums celebrating media and entertainment excellence.

    Nxtdigital, HGS’ digital content distribution platform, snagged the ‘Most Innovative Technology Provider’ trophy. At the heart of its win is the Nxthub model, a first-of-its-kind framework that has reimagined last-mile delivery. From India’s only Headend-in-the-Sky (HITS) platform to broadband and OTT, Nxtdigital has stitched it all into one integrated ecosystem. The result? Satellite-powered digital connectivity that now stretches across 4,500 pin codes, powering Tier 2, Tier 3 and rural India with digital TV and high-speed broadband.

    Meanwhile, One Broadband among India’s top internet service providers was named ‘Best ISP Delivering in Rural India’. Its formula is deceptively simple yet deeply effective: aggregating local cable operators and last-mile owners through its Strategic Alliance Partner (SAP) model. This has enabled the brand “One” to deliver not just broadband, but OTT-ready services and AI-enabled customer support into homes and businesses beyond the metros.

    “This recognition is more than a feather in our cap, it’s a responsibility,” said Nxtdigital media businesses CEO and HGS whole-time director Vynsley Fernandes. “It reaffirms our mission to build platforms that simplify access, scale with ease, and solve real-world challenges through innovation.”

    For HGS, the wins come as it doubles down on customer-first strategies and scalable tech investments, bolstering its footprint across both bustling cities and underserved villages. At BCS Ratna 2025, the message was clear: whether beaming via satellite or streaming via fibre, HGS is scripting a connectivity story that’s as inclusive as it is innovative.

  • One Broadband crosses half-a-million customers

    One Broadband crosses half-a-million customers

    KOLKATA: ONEOTT iNTERTAINMENT Ltd (OIL), a subsidiary of NXTDigital Ltd the integrated media vertical of the Hinduja Group, has achieved yet another milestone by crossing half-a-million home broadband customers to enter in the top five private wired ISPs in India, joining groups like Reliance JIO combine, Bharti Airtel, Voda-Idea and ACT.

    OIL’s vision is to continue to drive the digital inclusion agenda in India by connecting homes and offices online while following its core values of employee first, customer responsiveness, innovation, joyfulness and simplicity. The company in the final stages of launching smart security, smart lighting and IoT solutions for smart living, thereby, bringing ‘Future-To-The-Home powered on a Fiber-Optic To The Home (FTTH)’.

    OIL CEO Yugal Kishore Sharma said, “OIL has consistently strived to transform the lives of its customers by providing a seamless internet experience backed by a proactive & responsive customer care over ONE Wire using ONE Device for ONE Home aligned with our brand identity – ONE. OIL has had a stupendous 32x growth with its customer base crossing the half-a-million mark in the last 4 years of its operation with commensurate growth in revenues. From being a small player in the over 50+ ISPs about 4 years back to now moving into the top five Private wired ISPs, this is an achievement by any yardstick.”

    OIL looks to leverage this huge opportunity where the usage of internet in these Covid2019 pandemic times has moved beyond browsing and social networking to work-from-home, on-line education, OTT entertainment & gaming, online-shopping, online-health, e-governance, others. Coping-up with the ever-increasing demand for the internet, OIL has adapted to this consumption surge by doubling its internet capacity on the supply side without passing the additional cost to its customers to maintain the customer experience that has led OIL to add at an average of about a thousand customers a day during the pandemic.

    OIL plans to consolidate its operations and work on equitable partnerships with last-mile owners or LMOs. NXTDigital today connects 5.38 million video subscriber homes in 1500+ cities and  towns of India through its digital cable television (CATV) and headend-in-the-sky (HITS) platforms, served by over 9,000 LMOs. The company is leveraging this huge synergy to upsell and bundle internet services to each of these video homes. Enabling these high potential growth markets with high-speed-internet and digital platform services with LMOs is the key to OIL’s go-to-market strategy.

    It has successfully evolved its inorganic growth model by leveraging operational synergies with smaller ISP strategic partners. The organization will lead the on-demand economy wave by offering convergent solutions, such as internet, OTT and voice over one wire one device for one family.

    Yugal Sharma also shared that, in 2019, OIL announced a strategic partnership with Facebook to provide Wi-Fi hotspots across Mumbai. OIL’s ‘ONE Express Wi-Fi by Facebook’ Hotspots extend an umbrella coverage across Dharavi in Mumbai, enabling consumers to access free 2GB data per day for first 30 days to serve its vision to lead contribution to lead contribution to the digital inclusion in India.

  • ONE Broadband partners Nokia to power end-to-end network

    ONE Broadband partners Nokia to power end-to-end network

    MUMBAI: ONE Broadband, a Hinduja Group company for Telecom Data Services for the home and enterprise segments, has partnered Nokia to address the growing customer demand for high-speed services and capacity by deploying its gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) technology. With this partnership, ONE Broadband will be able to meet the ultra-broadband needs of its customers irrespective of network congestion.

    The technology will be initially deployed in the metropolitan cities of Mumbai and Delhi, followed by deployment in Bangalore and Nagpur. Subsequently, the technology will be deployed in other parts of the country.

    ONE Broadband will leverage Nokia’s GPON technology along with its broadband network gateway (BNG), carrier grade NAT (CGNAT) and deep packet inspection (DPI) to provide 2Gbps broadband connections to home users. The project will also allow ONE Broadband to upgrade bandwidth to symmetrical 10Gbps for enterprise customers.

    ONE Broadband will be able to provide differentiated and enhanced services to its customers with the help of Nokia BNG. The entire network would be based on MPLS technology and handle hundreds of Gigabits of traffic per second, enabling ONE Broadband customers to consume voice, video and data services at lightning speed.

    ONE Broadband CEO Yugal Sharma said: “The growing demand for advanced services, like ultra-high speed broadband, OTT and 4K Video transport, has created the necessity for a high-capacity fiber network. We want our customers to experience the best possible speed and network experience, and we believe that Nokia’s technical expertise will allow us to offer differentiated services to our customers.”

    Nokia’s head of emerging business for India Vinish Bawa said: “We are thrilled to work with ONE Broadband in their quest to provide better quality services to their customers. Indian cable operators are in the midst of a digital transformation, and with this deployment ONE Broadband will be able to grow its business by efficiently addressing the customer’s need for more capacity and a speedier broadband network.”