India’s satellite communications industry is waging two contests at once, and the same handful of players keep switching trenches depending on which one is underway. On...
The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting released the draft Telecommunications (Television, Radio and Associated Services) Rules, 2026 for public consultation on June 12, with feedback due...
Indian broadcasters are building AI production capacity faster than the law is settling the question of who owns what comes out of it. Zee-backed micro-drama platform...
The world’s largest democracy runs on the world’s most precarious digital plumbing. Behind the investment headlines and the AI boom lies a set of contradictions that...
India’s 60,000 local cable operators built the wires that carried television into every neighbourhood. Those wires are now their only lifeline, and their most pitiless competitor...
At its 49th AGM on June 19, 2026, Reliance mapped a media empire that now reaches 389 million television viewers daily, commands 451 million OTT users...
Reliance Jio’s plan to deploy a constellation of 1,600–1,650 low Earth orbit satellites at an altitude of approximately 650 kilometres is the most consequential bet in...
India has decided, with considerable deliberateness, not to be rushed into the satellite broadband era. The approval process has become one of global telecom’s most consequential...
Elon Musk is on track to become the world’s first trillionaire, with SpaceX’s initial public offering (IPO) raising USD 75bn before trading in shares even began...
The Ministry of Information & Broadcasting has issued draft Telecommunications (Television, Radio and Associated Services) Rules, 2026 under the Telecommunications Act, 2023, consolidating multiple legacy broadcast...
As of June 2026, Starlink, Eutelsat OneWeb, and Jio-SES all hold licences to operate in India, but none has launched. A thickening web of sovereign security...
TRAI is monitoring Airtel’s Priority Postpaid service and preparing a formal consultation on 5G network slicing. The regulator’s working view is that Airtel has not broken...
For India’s licensed broadcasters, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s consultation on internet television regulation is not a threat — it is, potentially, the rebalancing act...
India’s digital media market is large. That much the world’s content platforms and media investors have understood for some time. What they are still working out,...
India’s sports broadcasting landscape is being redrawn at speed, with rights deals, platform wars, and advertiser strategies converging to reshape how the country’s largest media companies...
How Ambani’s AI gamble is quietly demolishing, and rebuilding, India’s broadcast equipment industry Mukesh Ambani does not experiment quietly. When JioStar green-lit a fully AI-generated adaptation...
BroadcastAsia 2026 concluded on May 22 at Singapore EXPO, closing out a three-day show that drew approximately 20,000 attendees from more than 110 countries. Running under...
Every research note on Vodafone Idea these days reads like a variation of the same eulogy. Subscriber losses. ARPU lag. CapEx underspend relative to Jio and...
A second great unbundling is underway in global telecommunications, and this time it is happening above the atmosphere. After two decades in which terrestrial mobile networks...
Why 2025 and 2026 will decide whether Direct-to-Device satellite services become Indian telecom’s biggest opportunity, or its most disruptive threat The Indian telecom industry is staring...
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