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Prasar Bharati launches OTT Waves at IFFI Goa
MUMBAI: It’s hoping to make waves amongst streaming consumers and viewers of its linear TV network. State-owned pubcaster Prasar Bharati today announced the launch of its own OTT platform branded Waves, offering a broad spectrum of entertainment and news content at the opening ceremony of the International Film Festival of India in Goa.
Available for android and iOs devices, it offers around 70 live channels including B4U Bhojpuri, B4U Music, B4U Kadak, B4U Movies, GNT, Indian Today, ABP News, Divya, Republic, Republic Bharat, News Nation, Pitaara, News 24, PTC Punjabi Gold, PTC Punjabi, Times Now Navbharat, News 18 India, 9XM, NDTV India, TV9 Bharatvarsh, E24, News 24, Dabang, 9X Jalwa, 9X Jakhaas, 9X Tashan, Aaj Tak, Sanskar, Satsang, Raj TV, USPL, ABZY Movies, ABZY Dhaakad, Mayaboli, Masti, and NewsX. This apart, close to 34 of its own channels are available for viewing.
Waves also has a slew of original programmes from DD National including Fauji 2, an agricultural reality show Khet Khet May, Swarajya, Cybercrime, Rang mein Rang Ganga, among other shows. A new version of Ramayan from the house of Sagar is slated to launch soon. Old DD shows of the eighties and nineties, and others from PTC Punjabi complete the package on offer.
A catalogue of Hindi movies including Traffic Signal, Aarakshan, Khakee, Vodka Diaries, Phir Hera Pheri are available for viewing. The international film slate appears to be worth watching: The Goes Wrong Show, The Monkey King, Mr Johnson, and The Hunger Games. But both the Hindi and international films are powered by LionsgatePlay and are priced at Rs 399 per quarter. If viewers are not open to paying, they can consume a range of regional films which are dubbed in Hindi and can be watched for free.
Waves also has tabs offering live events, movies, shows, live TV, religious programming, archival documentaries, live radio, games, nostalgia, a shopping area linked to the open network for digital commerce, ebooks, a podcast and a creators’ corner.
The Waves app is available in three subscription offers. The first, a platinum annual subscription allows access to four devices simultaneously and is priced at 999 per annum while a diamond subscription has a sticker price of Rs 350 per annum for two devices. The gold pack which supposedly allows access to all content on Waves does not have a price tag attached in the subscription area.
In August, Prasar Bharati invited TV channels to join the platform, introducing a revenue-sharing model. Under this initiative, participating broadcasters receive 65 per cent of the ad revenue, while Prasar Bharati retains 35 per cent. Waves is offering t in SD, HD, and 4K, initially supporting 10 million concurrent users with scalability to 100 million.
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0 to 1 Doctrine: AI Decision Firewall for Telecom, Cloud, Software and the Full ICT Stack · A Vatsal Soin Invention
New Delhi : Information and Communications Technology (ICT) systems fail one way: limits checked after action, not before. Towers clear radio compliance, fail on backhaul — concrete already poured. AI models pass benchmarks, breach safety envelopes in production. Telecom measures megahertz. Grids measure kilowatts. Regulators measure risk. No shared evaluation step exists across them.
The Correction
The 0 to 1 Doctrine addresses this. Every parameter converts to a band on a unified 0-to-1 scale. Every authorisation requires intersection. No overlap — execution blocked, record sealed, record filed. The governance record exists at the moment of the decision, not the moment of the failure.
5G, Spectrum And Satellite
RF exposure, power availability, backhaul capacity, and orbital slot compliance — evaluated jointly as bands before ground breaks or orbital allocation is granted.
Tower Authorisation — One Moment
RF [0.58, 0.65] · Ceiling [0.61, 0.69] · Overlap
Power [0.72, 0.79] · Requirement [0.68, 0.75] · Overlap
Backhaul [0.55, 0.61] · Demand [0.63, 0.70] · No overlap
Blocked. Capital redirects. No foundation poured.
Data Centres — Water, Power, AI Workloads
Hyperscale facilities draw millions of litres daily from local watersheds. AI workload energy projected to increase significantly in the near term. Both governed before a site is acquired — not after a regulator intervenes mid-construction.
Industrial Control Systems
Internet-facing industrial controllers across critical infrastructure sectors have been accessed through accepted connections without pre-execution checks with no band check and no pre-execution block. The authorisation gap was structural. Under the doctrine, the connection never forms outside the authorised envelope.
Cloud And Internet Services
Capacity allocation, data residency, latency, and energy consumption — all band comparisons. No over-commitment executes. No residency violation discovered after data has moved.
ISPs governing routing policy, net neutrality compliance, and interconnection agreements operate under the same logic — all band comparisons, all tested before traffic is committed.
OTT, IPTV And Broadcasting
Content classification, regional licensing, and accessibility standards — all bands. No transmission executes without all clearing. Compliance record exists before the stream begins.
DTH platforms transmitting direct to dish must clear the same bands — content classification, orbital slot compliance, and regional licensing — before the signal leaves the uplink.
Email, Messaging And Communication Platforms
Sender reputation, domain trust, and content compliance — band comparisons before delivery. Phishing and spoofing often exploit gaps in pre-delivery authorisation The doctrine creates one.
AI Models — Alignment As Engineering
Safety is in model cards. Capability is benchmarked. The gap is bridged by judgement applied after development. Under the doctrine, the safety envelope is tested against the operational range before deployment.
AI Deployment Gate
Safety envelope [0.65, 0.74] · Operational range [0.63, 0.70] · Overlap Permitted
Extended range [0.75, 0.82] · Same envelope [0.65, 0.74] · No overlap No deployment.
For AGI: capability should not exceed the verified safety envelope. The band is the constitutional limit.
Cybersecurity And Software Supply Chain
Every component carries bands for security rating, provenance integrity, and licence compliance. Below the compliance floor — blocked before entering the build. AI model weights carry the same verifiable lineage, sealed before deployment.
IoT And Smart Home
Each device normalises parameters locally and tests band intersection without transmitting raw data. A device drifting outside its authorised envelope halts and routes to verified human authority and can operate without reliance on a central server.
IoT Device — Local Gate
Operational [0.71, 0.76] · Envelope [0.69, 0.75] · Overlap Executes
Drifted [0.77, 0.83] · Same envelope [0.69, 0.75] · No overlap
Halts. Human authority notified.
Industrial IoT And Smart Infrastructure
Smart city platforms, energy grids, and industrial control systems make thousands of consequential decisions per second. A grid instruction pushing frequency outside its authorised band is blocked before the command reaches the switch. The record is filed at the moment of the test, not the moment of the failure.
Consumer Devices And Network Equipment
Smartphones, laptops, routers, and tower hardware carry firmware and operational parameters that are normalisable. Software updates, security patch compliance, and hardware certification bands — all testable before deployment reaches the device.
Data Privacy — Delete Before Share
Signal strength, device identifiers, and network telemetry are processed locally and converted to bands. The temporary calculation copy is deleted before any transmission. The original stays on the device. Only the band travels.
The Stack — Complete
The ICT stack governs more consequence per second than any other infrastructure in existence. Its governance today is fragmented, sequential, and retrospective. The 0→1 Doctrine introduces it concurrent, mathematical, and pre-executory — band definitions drawn from published thresholds of ITU, IEEE, ETSI, and national spectrum authorities, present before action, not assembled after harm.
About The Inventor
Vatsal Soin is an Indian systems theorist and inventor with multiple patent filings and grants. Earlier inventions converged toward one destination: the 0→1 Doctrine.
Vatsal Soin © 2026 · All Rights Reserved · Informational only · Not certified · Values illustrative · Expert validation required before deployment
Granted: US Patent 12,446,652 B2 · Japan Patent No. 7560909 · India Patent No. 454081
Filed: PCT/IN2025/051943 · US 19/489,595 · India 202511115781 · November-December 2025.
