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Cabinet approves new telecom policy
MUMBAI: New telecom policy branded as the National Digital Communications Policy (http://www.indiantelevision.com/iworld/telecom/new-telecom-policy-may-go-to-cabinet-in-2-weeks-dots-sundararajan-180905) (NDCP) 2018 finally got an approval from the cabinet. The new policy aims to attract USD 100 billion in investment and create 40 lakh jobs in the sector by 2022, PTI reported.
Providing broadband access to all, creating 40 lakh new jobs, and increasing India’s ranking in the global ICT Index to 50th spot- these are some of the key objectives of NDCP 2018.
“We also expect GDP contribution of the telecom sector, which has been around six per cent, to grow to 8 per cent… and expect USD 100 billion investment to come in,” communication minister Manoj Sinha said.
As communication systems have been going through rapid change globally in areas like 5G, Internet of Things and Machine to Machine Communication, Sinha said a “consumer-centric and application-driven policy” was needed to be brought in.
The new policy(http://www.indiantelevision.com/iworld/telecom/comment-indias-ntp-2018-gets-digital-makeover-but-needs-complimentary-policies-180508) is focused on increasing high-speed broadband penetration, with use of modern technologies like 5G and optical fibres across the country at affordable rates.
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Leonid Radvinsky, the man who made OnlyFans a $5.5bn empire, dies at 43
The Ukrainian-American entrepreneur transformed a niche subscription site into a $5.5bn cultural force, then kept almost entirely out of sight
LONDON: He owned one of the most talked-about platforms on the internet and almost nobody knew his name. Leonid Radvinsky, the billionaire majority owner of OnlyFans, died on Monday after a prolonged battle with cancer. He was 43. The London-based company confirmed his death in a statement, saying he had “passed away peacefully.” His family has requested privacy.
Radvinsky was not OnlyFans’ founder. That distinction belongs to British entrepreneur Tim Stokely, who launched the subscription platform in 2016. But it was Radvinsky who turned it into a money machine. In 2018 he acquired Fenix International Ltd, OnlyFans’ parent company, becoming its director and majority shareholder. What he inherited was a modest content platform. What he left behind was a global phenomenon, valued at roughly $5.5bn including debt, according to a Reuters report in January citing talks with investment firm Architect Capital over a potential majority stake sale.
Born in the Ukrainian port city of Odesa, Radvinsky moved to Chicago as a child and most recently lived in Florida. Long before OnlyFans, he had built businesses in the adult internet sector, including the live cam site MyFreeCams, and founded a venture capital firm focused on technology in 2009. He knew the terrain.
His masterstroke was timing, or rather, recognising what the pandemic would do. When Covid-19 lockdowns drove millions of people indoors and online in 2020, OnlyFans was ready. Creators poured onto the platform. Subscribers followed. The model, which allowed creators to charge users directly for content, much of it adult-oriented, became a template for the broader creator economy. OnlyFans did not merely survive the pandemic; it became one of its defining commercial stories.
Despite presiding over all of this, Radvinsky maintained a near-total public silence. He rarely gave interviews. His illness was never disclosed. OnlyFans said he had supported several philanthropic projects, including donations to the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, open-source initiatives and the West Suburban Humane Society. A Wall Street Journal report noted that he and his wife supported a $23m grant programme for cancer research through a gastrointestinal research foundation in 2024, a detail that now carries a particular weight.
His death lands at an uncomfortable moment for the platform he shaped. OnlyFans faces growing scrutiny from regulators and policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic, even as it continues to redefine how content creators make money online. The sale talks with Architect Capital add another layer of uncertainty. Radvinsky built something vast, then quietly stepped back from view. The question now is who steers it next, and whether anyone can do so with quite the same invisible grip.
