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New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Thursday dismiised a plea seeking a stay on a tribunal order that restrained by the Department of Telecom (DoT) from imposing a ban on 3G roaming pacts between mobile operator.

The DoT had pleaded that the tribunal had no jurisdiction to look into the licence terms and conditions entered among the operators and the DoT.

But the court said the Telecom Dispute Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) had the jurisdiction to hear the case of mobile phone service providers that have have challenged a telecom department order on banning 3G roaming services offered by operators in each others' circles.

A division bench of acting Chief Justice A.K. Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw said they were not inclined to interfere with the tribunal orders and dismissed the petition.

The DoT had declared 3G roaming pacts between mobile operators illegal and asked five telecom operators to stop their inter circle roaming.

The order was challenged by Airtel, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular before TDSAT.

According to the DoT, the roaming agreement among telecom companies for 3G services is illegal and would lead to a significant loss of revenue to the government.

The service providers had entered into a roaming agreement to offer 3G services such as video calling, mobile TV and multi-media gaming in telecom circles where they could not win 3G spectrum auctioned last year.

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The cable TV provider's Xfinity Streampix is designed to give Web access to its films and TV shows, following HBO Go's lead in competing with Netflix.

Comcast announced a new subscription video-on-demand service today that will provide "out of home" access via the Web.

Comcast has named the new service Xfinity Streampix. The cable company's strategy to compete against Netflix, the Web's No. 1 video rental service, has obviously been influenced by HBO.

Streampix is designed to enhance Comcast's existing service, Xfinity, by offering users a broader selection of movies and TV shows. Variety, the Hollywood trade magazine, first reported the story.

HBO Go, the Internet service that enables HBO subscribers to access every episode of the company's past and present shows online, has become a model for cable companies trying to compete online.

Streampix "enables Xfinity video customers to instantly view favorite movies and TV shows in and out of the home," Comcast said in a statement. The TV shows offered include "numerous past seasons of current hit shows and full series."

This is a smart move, as it hits Netflix where it is weakest now: its video-streaming selection. Exclusive licensing deals have locked Netflix out of acquiring the latest movies from five of the six top Hollywood film studios. While Netflix managers have seen rapid growth (gaining more than 24 million subscribers), they have struggled of late to keep the streaming library fresh.

With Netflix customers grumbling about the lack of new titles, Comcast can tell customers, "Hey, the other guy might help you save some money, but is there anything there you want to see?"

Conversely, Comcast's offer isn't without its shortcomings.

A Comcast subscriber must either be a member of one of the company's triple-play packages (high-speed Web, video, phone, etc.), or pay an additional $5 a month for Streampix.

That extra $5 may be the service's Achilles' heel. When it comes to price, Netflix's basic streaming service is far less expensive than any of the U.S. cable offerings.

Comcast said Streampix will be available on multiple Web-connected devices, including smart TVs.

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As more and more consumers move to cut the cord, Comcast is the latest major media company to announce its entrance into the streaming video business. And like Netflix before it with Qwikster, the cable company's chosen a truly terrible name for it's new online component: Xfinity Streampix. "The new service, which will launch on Thursday, is separate from Comcast's existing Xfinity TV offering, which gives a selection of newer shows to Comcast video customers in and out of the home as part of their standard video subscriptions," explains The Wall Street Journal's Sam Schechner. Streampix, he adds, " will give existing Comcast video customers a similar selection of old TV shows and movies over the Web," just like Netflix, Amazon, Verizon, Walmart, Apple and a few others offering similar services, although with Comcast owning NBC Universal, expect lots of NBC TV and Universal movies. While it's unclear how many movies and TV shows the Streampix library will contain, it's certainly looking competitive price-wise, costing a cool $4.99 a month. Just think: for less than $10 you could be enjoying a footlong Subway sandwich, watching Lost and not moving a muscle. God bless America.

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