In no particular order, here are MediaNama’s top 10 stories of the week ended 14th August 2016 MediaNama would like to thank its sponsors: Info Edge, Times Internet and E2E for their support. - CBI charges former ISRO chairman & Antrix execs over criminal conspiracy The CBI has filed a charge sheet against former ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair, Devas Multimedia a Bangalore based satellite communications company, and top executives of ISRO’s commercial arm Antrix Corporation for allegedly causing losses of Rs 578 core to the government exchequer. Devas was supposed to develop a project to launch satellite-based multimedia services (including video, audio) via mobile phones and broadcasting mediums in India using the rare S-band spectrum. Read it here. - LinkedIn India has 37 million users; 100 million in APAC The Microsoft owned LinkedIn claims to have 37 million users in India. It has over 100 million in the Asia Pacific region, up fivefold from 20 million users in 2012. In APAC, LinkedIn users have doubled from 50 million to 100 million in 2 years, and represent 22% of LinkedIn’s global user base of over 450 million. Read it here. - COAI accuses Jio of impairing other operators; Jio refutes in a letter to DoT After alleging that recent TRAI consultations on Interconnection charges favored new entrants, the COAI lashed out against Reliance Jio’s network trails that apparently has onboarded 1.5 million ‘test subscribers’. The amount of traffic being generated from the Jio trials are “choking” Points of Interconnection (PoI)—physical connection between…
