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    Platforms generating traffic growth should share costs: COAI

    • 05.01.2024
    • Indian Broadcasting World

    The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) has proposed that 4-5 large traffic-generating (LTG) platforms like OTTs responsible for the disproportionate traffic growth on telecom networks should bear the equitable share of costs.

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    Lithuania’s €140 Piracy ‘Fines’ Will Pay Off, Lawyer Says

    • 05.01.2024
    • TorrentFreak

    In an effort to tackle online piracy, Lithuania has started issuing fines to online pirates. Thus far, fifty people have been handed a €140 fine, mostly for sharing pirated movies on the private torrent tracker Linkomanija.

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    Top OTT players should share telecom infra cost: Whitepaper

    • 05.01.2024
    • Telecom.com\EconomicTimes

    In the fifth generation or 5G network alone, Indian telcos are expected to spend as much as $75 billion until 2035, according to a study by Analysys Mason.

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    BitTorrent Tracker Blocks Thousands of ‘Infringing’ Hashes

    • 04.01.2024
    • TorrentFreak

    OpenTrackr is a content-neutral torrent tracker that facilitates millions of BitTorrent transfers. The service doesn't store any files and is not privy to what people share.

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    60% consumers realise AI’s transformative powers: Study

    • 04.01.2024
    • BestMediaInfo

    As per a study by Cheil India, Data privacy has emerged as the biggest bottleneck in AI adoption – 64% of respondents think that if they start using AI, all their data will be exposed to AI companies, while 70% are worried about those companies misusing the data they share

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    The monthly growth rate of subscribers is 0.37 per cent – TRAI

    • 04.01.2024
    • Indiantelevision

    Mumbai: According to the recent TRAI ( Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) data release, total broadband subscribers increased in October 2023 to 1115 from 1108 operators in September 2023.

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    Generative AI’s wild 2023: How the viral technology took over the world

    • 04.01.2024
    • Telecom.com\EconomicTimes

    Investors, led by Microsoft's multibillion-dollar bet on OpenAI, injected $27 billion into generative AI startups in 2023, according to Pitchbook.

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    Government likely to amend IT Act to add new rules for AI, GenAI models

    • 04.01.2024
    • Telecom.com\EconomicTimes

    Apart from the safeguards for preventing bias in AI and language models, the IT Rules amendments may also bring new rules for deepfake, synthetic content and explicit instructions for platforms on loan apps, said one of the persons.

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    Disney Star to strengthen regional play

    • 04.01.2024
    • LiveMint

    New Delhi: The Disney Star network is looking to strengthen its hold on the regional television space, as viewers emerge from the pandemic to demand quality content and are open to discovering new stories and characters that are close to reality.

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    Reliance and Disney initiate antitrust examination for media merger in India: Report

    • 04.01.2024
    • LiveMint

    Billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries (RELI.NS) and Walt Disney (DIS.N) have engaged law firms and initiated antitrust due diligence for their proposed merger in the Indian media and entertainment sector, according to four individuals with knowledge of the situation.

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