| MTNL hopes to add 2 million broadband connections by 2010 | 14-NOV-09 |
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| “We expect to reach the target of providing 2 million broadband connections by 2010,” MTNL’s CMD, R S P Sinha told reporters here. Another leading state-run telecom operator, BSNL had launched a similar scheme a month back. |
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| On the way: cable TV without any wire | 03-NOV-09 |
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| In what may become a revolution in entertainment, accessing television via cable, IPTV or interactive DTH services is soon going to be via wireless, on the lines of a wi-fi internet connectivity. |
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| Shuchi Bansal: MyWay or the highway | 17-SEP-09 |
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| It’s time for DTH to retire. That was the boast IPTV firm Smart Digivision made on huge billboards across the country when it began its MyWay IPTV services three months ago. |
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| Fundamental learning, please | 06-SEP-09 |
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| So, what’s IPTV?” I asked the rather confident voice on the other end of the phone line. “I’ll tell you ma’am,” said an overtly excited lady at least three times before proceeding with the conversation. This must have been while — I suspect — the computer screen in front of her was downloading the page from which she was supposed to rattle off the information. |
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| Adult-rated foreign films may be allowed on digital platforms | 10-AUG-09 |
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| With broadcasters and the government close to working out a new content code for television, foreign movies with partial nudity and mature content may soon be allowed at all time bands on digital addressable media platforms like direct-to-home (DTH) services, conditional access system and IPTV platforms, which have the provision of a parental lock. |
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| Srei to roll out IPTV services in Orissa | 08-AUG-09 |
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| SREI Sahaj E-Village Limited, a subsidiary of the Kolkata-based Srei Infrastructure Finance Limited, plans to roll out IPTV (internet protocol television) services at its 20 common service centres (CSCs) in the rural areas of Orissa by the end of this year. |
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| 22 new channels get I&B ministry nod | 27-JUN-09 |
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| With the government giving permission to 22 new channels to downlink in the country, India has now got 458 television channels officially allowed to be carried across cable, direct-to-home and IPTV platforms. Four new channels of National Geographic and three regional news channels of TV 18 group are among the 22 channels that have been given the neccessary permission to broadcast in the country by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&B). |
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| Iconic ambitions | 23-JUN-09 |
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| There are several targets that Bharti Airtel is chasing at the moment — there is MTN of South Africa to acquire; footprint in emerging markets like Sri Lanka to expand; DTH (direct-to-home), IPTV and broadband operations to ramp up and mobile telephone services to grow in a crowded market. |
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| Satellite piracy sends strong signals to India | 09-JUN-09 |
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| Deepak Chaurasia (name changed) is watching the latest Hindi movie beamed by his cable operator. Glued to the local cable channel at home, he’s an unwitting partner in crime. Though he doesn’t know it, the movie has been routed from a pay television (TV) channel without authorisation from the original broadcaster. |
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| IPTV gets a cold shoulder | 01-JUN-09 |
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| Even after 6 months of using the much-hyped Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) service, Abhishek Verma, a 32-year old software engineer, isn’t too kicked about it. |
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| MTNL to invest Rs 1,725 cr in FY10 | 15-MAY-09 |
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| Aiming to expand its GSM network, state-owned MTNL today said that it has earmarked Rs 1,725 crore capital expenditure plan for the current fiscal. |
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| BSNL aims7.5 mn broadband subscribers in FY10 | 15-MAY-09 |
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| State-run telecom services provider BSNL today said it is targeting to have 7.5 million broadband subscribers in the current fiscal, banking on the demand opportunities from the small towns and cities. |
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| Vanita Kohli-Khandekar: Selling entertainment on the net | 07-APR-09 |
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| The question is now getting serious. Across the world, film, music and TV companies are struggling to find ways of harnessing the power that internet offers as a medium — in reach, interactivity, width and depth. Google’s YouTube, for all its success and ownership, is still struggling to make money from music videos. The same goes for every major TV and film company in the US, the petri-dish market for almost everything to do with the internet. |
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