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  • SITI Cable reports higher revenue, EBIDTA for Q3-2014

    SITI Cable reports higher revenue, EBIDTA for Q3-2014

    BENGALURU: Essel Group company SITI Cable Network Limited (Siti Cable), the erstwhile Wire and Wireless (India) Ltd (WWIL) reported 42.1 per cent growth in Total Income to Rs 177.26 crore in Q3-2014 from Rs 124.71 crore in the third quarter of last year and was 8.8 per cent higher than Rs 162.94 crore in the previous quarter.

     

    The company reported 72.8 per cent higher earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortisation (EBIDTA) at Rs 35 crore in Q3-2014 as compared to the Rs 20.25 crore in Q3 of last year and 6.1 per cent more than the Rs 32.98 crore in the immediate trailing quarter.

     

    Siti Cable Chairman Subhash Chandra said, “The ongoing digitisation is providing new impetus for growth and value in India though we are still early in the value creation process. Digital Cable Television is a major engine of growth for SITI Cable across all geographies. Our sustained investment in this segment will further enhance customer television viewing experience”.

     

    “Our results for the quarter reflect the overall stability of our operations, and demonstrate the potential for growth. SITI Cable is EBITDA positive in this quarter as well,” added Chandra.

     

    Let us look at the other figures reported by SITI Cable for Q3-2014:

     

    Operating revenue in SITI Cable’s case is primarily generated from subscriber related income, especially from digitisation, income from bandwidth charges, ad income, STB activation charges and other operating revenues. Total Income figures have been mentioned above.

     

    Operating cost for Q4-2014 at Rs 142.26 crore was 36.2 per cent more than the Rs 104.46 crore for Q3-2013 and 9.5 per cent higher than the Rs 129.96 crore for Q2-2014.

     

    The company’s Selling and Distribution expense in Q3-2014 almost quadrupled (was up 3.92 times) to Rs 12.91 crore from Rs 3.29 crore in Q3-2013 and was four per cent more than the Rs 12.42 crore in the immediate preceding quarter.

     

    Its staff cost at Rs 9.91 crore for the current quarter was 23.7 per cent more than the Rs 8.01 crore in Q3-2013 and 5.5 per cent more than the Rs 9.39 crore in Q2-2014. Administrative expense for Q4-2014 at Rs 16.88 crore was down by 3.8 per cent to Rs 16.88 crore in Q3-2014 from Rs 17.55 crore in Q3-2013 and (33.65) per cent lower than the Rs 25.44 crore in Q2-2014.

     

    Depreciation in Q3-2014 was up by 61.8 per cent to Rs 22.99 crore from Rs 14.21 crore in the corresponding quarter of last year, but was (14.6) per cent lower than the Rs 26.91 crore in Q2-2014. The company paid 24.3 per cent more towards finance charges in Q3-2014 at Rs 31.22 crore than the Rs 25.11 crore in Q3-2013 and was 2.3 per cent more than the Rs 30.52 crore in Q2-2013.

     

    The company reported a loss of Rs (22.51) crore in Q3-2014, which was 20.1 per cent more than the loss of Rs 18.75 crore in Q3-2013 and three per cent more than the Rs 21.85 crore in Q2-2014.

     

    SITI Cable CEO VD Wadhwa said, “We have gained further momentum in the third quarter of fiscal 2014. Our total revenue and EBITDA grew to Rs 1773 million and Rs 350 million respectively, a healthy growth of 42 per cent and 73 per cent respectively over corresponding quarter of last fiscal. We have maintained our margins through operational efficiency improvements despite stiff challenges faced at market place on account of DAS billing. We have made the healthy progress in collection of DAS subscription revenue which is way ahead of competition.”

     

    He further added, “We are now in exciting phase of our journey as we strengthen our existing operations and expand our digital subscriber base in phase-3&4 towns. We have started digital cable services in strategic markets of Vijayawada, Hissar and Rohtak in this quarter. We have also reinvented the company website making it more interactive and user- friendly”.

     

    Click here for full report

  • Arasu has a provisional MSO licence to operate: Manish Tewari

    Arasu has a provisional MSO licence to operate: Manish Tewari

    NEW DELHI: The Tamil Nadu Arasu Cable TV Corporation, a multi-system operator (MSO) run by the TN government – has been claiming that the government has not given it an operational licence, thereby restricting it from transmitting digital signals to its subscribers. The MSO even filed a case in the Madras High Court in December, 2013 and got a stay over Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (TRAI) earlier order which stated that MSOs transmitting analogue signals in Chennai would be prosecuted.

     

    While the case is yet to get its second date of hearing, the Information and Broadcasting (I&B) minister Manish Tewari, in a response to a question in the Parliament, said that on 26 November, 2007 Arasu had applied for grant of MSO registration in conditional access system (CAS) notified area of Chennai. The Ministry had granted provisional permission on 2 April, 2008. It was on the condition that after TRAI recommendations are considered, the Ministry will decide whether state governments/PSUs and other entities can enter into broadcasting activities including MSO/Cable operations.

     

    Along with Arasu, four other MSOs in Chennai were also given CAS licences in 2006 including IMCL, Hathway Cable and Datacom, Kal Cable and JAK communications.

     

    In response to a question about licences given to private players in other southern states, Tewari said that CAS was implemented in the notified areas of Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata on 31.12.2006; while in Chennai, it was implemented since 2003 under notifications of 14 January, 2003 and 31 July, 2006. Since CAS was implemented only in Chennai, no CAS permission was granted to MSOs in other southern states.

     

    The entire episode has in a way turned everything around. The case is pending in court till the time TRAI submits its response. So while TRAI – which is completely against the idea of govt. owned MSOs and awaits Ministry’s response to its recommendations – awaits the responses, it could mean that Arasu is free to operate. Moreover, it can even give digital signals or seed STBs as TRAI can’t take any action against it, given that the MSO has a temporary licence.

     

    The picture will be clear only after the Ministry brings out its regulation and the case in the Madras High Court proceeds.

  • TRAI: Phase I and II CAF collection nearing completion

    TRAI: Phase I and II CAF collection nearing completion

    MUMBAI: When the entire process of digitisation started in the country, nobody would have thought it would be such a tough nut to crack and there would be a slippage of so many deadlines. Recently, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) warned the multi-system operators (MSOs) and subscribers in the digital addressable system (DAS) Phase I and II towns that enough was enough and that they had better get going on finishing the task of submitting the Customer Application Forms (CAFs) with two deadlines – on 27 January for 23 cities and on 31 January for eight cities – once again proving elusive.

    The caning seems to have worked well as everything is getting back on track now. A TRAI official informs that the work in the Phase I and II of Digital Addressable System (DAS) is near completion. Cities with 27 January as the deadline – Rajkot, Surat, Vadodara, Faridabad, Mysore, Aurangabad, Nasik, Pimpri-Chinchwad, Pune, Sholapur, Amritsar, Ludhiana, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Agra, Allahabad, Ghaziabad, Kanpur, Lucknow, Meerut, Varanasi, Chandigarh and Howrah – have almost been  100 per cent  penetrated with active set top boxes (STBs). Almost 85 per cent work has been done (as of 29 January) in areas with 31 January as the deadline that includes cities such as Patna, Ahmedabad, Ranchi, Bengaluru, Kalyan-Dombivali, Nagpur, Navi Mumbai and Thane.

    MSOs have been given two to three additional days post the deadline to submit their compliance reports to TRAI.

     

    “We are in touch with the MSOs on a daily basis and nearly 99.7 per cent has been completed as per the deadlines. If subscribers have failed to fill the forms, MSOs have cut off connections, saving TRAI’s time and also saving themselves from any action against them,” informs a TRAI official.

    However, Maharashtra Cable Operators Federation (MCOF) president Arvind Prabhoo says that only 70 to 75 per cent work has been completed in the second deadline areas, while in Navi Mumbai hardly 30- 40 per cent work is done.

    A cable operator from Airoli says, “We had got CAF forms in the beginning till about June last year. After that it stopped coming to us.”

     

    But Siti Cable COO Anil Malhotra says that almost 90 per cent work has been completed and the subscribers who fail to fill the forms by tonight will have to face a TV blackout. “Scrolls have already been running to make them aware about it and thus we are sure that we will reach 100 per cent compliance soon,” he remarks.

     

    Hathway Cable and Datacom CEO Jagdish Kumar claims that in these areas Hathway has reached near about 100 per cent. “By 27 December, almost 90 per cent work was done, while the rest had to face a disconnection. Few customers came back to fill the forms and others switched to DTH,” he says. In the next eight cities, about 80 per cent of forms have been collected and fed into the system.

     

    Another leading MSO, Den Networks is also claiming to have achieved 100 per cent compliance for the two dates. Says Den Networks CEO S N Sharma, “In these cities we have complied fully and sent the report to TRAI. We have data of all subscribers and for those who haven’t sent them, their cable connections have been cut off.”

     

    A bright day for digitisation doesn’t look far if the above numbers are to be believed. While few exceptions are always there, most of the stakeholders are taking it seriously. And if the MSOs continue at the same pace and work towards achieving the goal diligently, by February, the work for phase III and IV will kick off.

  • TRAI awaits call from Madras High Court for Arasu hearing

    TRAI awaits call from Madras High Court for Arasu hearing

    MUMBAI: More than four weeks have passed since the Madras High Court gave the interim order restraining the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) from taking any coercive steps against the Tamil Nadu state government-owned MSO Arasu Cable TV Corp for giving analogue signals in Chennai.

     

    However, there has been no follow up by the Madras HC on what it intends to do following the stay. 

     

    Anticipating a date soon, TRAI lawyers are already up on their toes and are compiling their response so that it can be submitted to the court. “We are still waiting for a date of the hearing. We haven’t heard anything from the court,” says a senior TRAI official.

     

    The case filed against two parties – the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) and the TRAI will hopefully be  heard soon where the respondents from both the parties will get a chance to present their individual viewpoints. 

     

    The entire issue cropped up because Arasu has not been granted a digital addressable system (DAS) licence to run its business in the state even after continuous efforts to secure it. The MSO is still giving out analogue signals, thus keeping Chennai as the only city from Phase I to not go the whole hog on digitisation. 

     

    In its order which it passed late December 2013, the court states that the Inter-ministerial Committee (IMC) formed to decide the fate of Arasu has to move quickly on it. The order also mentions that Arasu abided by the rules and applied for a licence even after the Cable TV Networks (Regulation) Act, 1995 was amended in 2012.

     

    “It is not known to this Court as to why the first respondent (MIB) has not taken any decision so far on the application of the petitioner,” states the order. 

     

    The TRAI view on this is quite clear. Says a senior official at the regulator: “The decision on granting the licence lies with the MIB. In our recommendation we said that state governments should not be given the licence. The IMC is working on it but we haven’t yet got any response from them.” 

     

    The HC also states that since Arasu had followed the rules for applying for a licence, the MIB is not justified in keeping the matter pending and not arriving at a conclusion. It has also directed the Ministry to come out with a decision at the earliest.

     

    If MIB follows the TRAI’s cue and bars Arasu from securing a licence, the regulator  can take action against the MSO, according to the official. “If the MIB disqualifies Arasu from getting a licence, it cannot operate and if they do, they will be in violation of the law,” he says.

     

    As of now, nothing can be done against Arasu due to the interim order given by the Madras HC. But which direction this case moves is extremely crucial as the country is soon entering phase III and IV of digitisation. And it will decide whether the city of Chennai remains an analogue island in a sea of digitised India. 

  • First Indian Digital TV Honours on 28 Jan

    First Indian Digital TV Honours on 28 Jan

    MUMBAI: 2013 was a watershed year for the cable TV and DTH industry, what with the the entire TV industry – cable TV operators, MSOs, DTH players –  working on going into overdrive, pushing the government’s digital addressable system (DAS – digitisation) mandate. There were big developments and even bigger initiatives, and it is with a view to recognising and rewarding such endeavours as well as the individuals and organisations behind them that Indiantelevision.com has instituted a first-of-its-kind initiative called ‘The Indian Digital TV Honours’, to be held on Tuesday 28 January at The Lalit, New Delhi.

     

    The list of best practices and worthy winners has been compiled by an advisory board comprising senior executives, industry veterans and the indiantelevision.com editorial team led by founder, CEO and editor-in-chief Anil Wanvari.

     

    According to Media Partners Asia executive director and co-founder and member of the advisory board Vivek Couto, The Indian Digital TV Honours is a laudable effort as it will go a long way in encouraging individuals to accelerate the development of the industry.  “That’s because it seeks to recognize the achievement, innovation and vision of the stakeholders,” he says.”

     

    Media observer and consultant and member of the advisory board Sanjeev Hiremath adds: “It is an encouraging initiative by Indiantelevision.com. It is a way to both support and encourage the implementation of DAS. I am glad that a platform like this has been set up by the Indiantelevision team.”

     

    BCCL president corporate development (and member of the advisory board) Sunil Lulla believes there was a need to acknowledge the manner in which television distribution is changing. “I am glad that there is another first from Indiantelevision.com. Acknowledgement is needed. Though the switch from analog to digital will take time, encouragement is needed.”

     

    Chrome Data Analytics and Media founder and MD Pankaj Krishna joins his peers in lauding the effort. “I am sure pretty soon, others will follow it too. One must remember that digitisation is very critical to us now and with the change in wind, the transition from analog to digital is going to become crucial. In short, it is like the change from Kodak film roll which we used 10 years ago to a digicam, which has become a part of our lives now.”

     

    So how did the advisory board select the winners? Says Wanvari: “We had detailed discussions with various stakeholders in the industry, to come up with a filtered list of top achievements to which the advisory members also contributed.”

     

    Adds Lulla: “A list was given to us comprising names of people and companies that have made a difference to digitisation from various points of view like preparedness, initiatives taken, consumers, success etc. So, I looked at these from various perspectives like who made it simple for consumers, who followed the regulations, which company or person drove the change and so on…”

     

    What were the criteria for selection? Couto anwers: “The criteria were simple. Any stakeholder or regulator who has ushered in development through investment, leadership or a combination of both to accelerate quality content and infrastructure for consumers will feature in the list.”

     

    The entire selection process took almost a month for the advisory board. Hiremath, who identified categories to honour key initiatives, says: “This is going to be an exciting and interesting event.”

     

    According to Hiremath and Couto, while the first edition will honour well-known names from the industry, the awards will only get bigger and better with time.

     

    “We will see OTT players, software developers, app developers and many others entering the ecosystem in the future,” Couto rounds off.
     

    The Event is: 

    Powered by Partner:  Den

    Associate Partners: Hathway, Surewaves, Videocon D2H

    Support Partner: SES, The One Alliance

    Media Partner: India News

    Thanks to HBO Defined and HBO Hits for the support

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    Event Executed By: ITV2.0 Productions

    An Initiative By: Indiantelevision.com

  • Tewari justifies rules for regulation of television audience rating agencies

    Tewari justifies rules for regulation of television audience rating agencies

    NEW DELHI: Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Minister Manish Tewari today addressed the attendees of the fifth CEOs round table conference organised by the Confederation of Indian Industries today. He said that the television rating points rules are an attempt to make the process transparent, credible and accountable. At the same time, the endeavour was to address aberrations in the existing rating system.

     

    Tewari added that this initiative was based on the past recommendations of the Parliamentary Standing Committee for Information Technology, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) and the Amit Mitra Committee.

     

    The Government had also been approached in the past by the industry stakeholders to rectify the existing flaws. The long term objective was an attempt to usher a system with defined rules within an existing framework.

     

    Meanwhile, he said the digitisation process during Phase III and IV would have to focus on the interest of the consumers in order to ensure that they were partners in the process rather than adversaries.

     

    For this purpose, the industry would have to run a focussed consumer awareness campaign, whereby the consumer would have to be sensitized about the benefits accruing from this process.
     

    Tewari said the campaign would have to focus on improved quality of viewing and related qualitative benefits accruing to the consumer as a result of the implementation process. The lessons of the implementation during Phase I and Phase II would also have to be taken into account while outlining the implementation roadmap for the remaining phases.

     

    For digitization to succeed, the industry would have to make efforts to ensure that the consumer was an integral component in the digitisation value chain. At the same time, the comprehensive approach would also ensure the emergence of viable business model for the industry.

    On the issue of monopolies in the cable TV sector, Tewari said that regulator had already made its recommendation and the issues involved were being examined by the Inter Ministerial Committee (IMC).

     

    The Minister also said that the regulatory framework ought to be stable and transparent for all stakeholders for the broadcasting sector to grow. This would ensure orderly growth for the sector in the long run

  • MIB: Now on to DAS phase III & IV

    MIB: Now on to DAS phase III & IV

    MUMBAI: Within days of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) giving out its fact sheet on how digital addressable system (DAS) phase I and II have progressed, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) directed all the stakeholders also known as  ‘the task force of digitisation’ to assess its progress and chart out a road map for the coming year.

     

    The meeting saw minister Manish Tewari, secretary Bimal Julka, additional secretary Supriya Sahu, leading MSOs such as Den CEO S N Sharma, The One Alliance president Rajesh Kaul, LCOs, News Broadcasting Association (NBA) secretary Annie Joseph, Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) secretary Shailesh Shah and Tata Sky CEO Harit Nagpal. After speaking to everyone about the issues faced in DAS phases I and II and Sahu’s presentation on the value that digitisation was creating in the country, Tewari gave the go ahead to implement the next two phases.

     

    However this time it won’t be with two deadlines but rather a one stretch implementation across the remaining parts of the country with just one deadline of 31 December 2014. Although the ministry was of the opinion that two deadlines should exist, the TRAI had voiced its opinion in 2011 that phase III and IV could be achieved simultaneously.

     

    All the stakeholders brought out the issues they had faced in the first two phases to which the minister warned them to sort out their own problems internally or this would lead to a postponement of complete national digitisation – which would not bode well for the industry.  He also told everyone to keep working in coordination even now – and iron out any wrinkles or resolve all problems so that digitisation can progress further.

     

    Tewari said that the upcoming elections may slow down the process but digitisation is here for good and there’s no stopping it now.  The IBF and NBA have been asked to once again air promos highlighting the importance of digitisation.

     

    Now that the green signal has been given, all stakeholders can now attack the rest of the country without having any boundaries. But this is the toughest part as the issues they will face in the interiors will be much higher  and more difficult to resolve than metros and towns. Phase I and II saw nearly 25 million set top boxes being seeded while phase III and IV will see about 75 million more boxes being put in place.

     

    The minister has also assured support saying that the issues in the previous phases will be addressed as they move towards the next ones. 

  • Four national MSOs file writ petition against Ent Tax

    Four national MSOs file writ petition against Ent Tax

    MUMBAI: Entertainment tax has become a bothersome issue for both MSOs and LCOs. Right from the amount of tax levied to ownership of collection, state government mandates have got the two cable TV factions locking horns. While government regulations mandate MSOs to collect tax from the LCOs and submit it, the LCOs would rather take the onus on themselves.

     

    Four Indian national MSOs – Den, Hathway, Siticable and InCable have filed separate writ petitions in the Delhi HC to challenge several aspects of the entertainment tax being imposed as well as the tax collecting authority’s stance towards the MSOs in the state of Delhi.  The cases are all set to be heard today in a joint hearing.

     

    While Hathway Cable & Datacom was put through an enquiry on its own premises, others have decided to legally protect themselves before something similar happens to them. Siticable claims that it has been fulfilling all duties effectively. An ex parte order was taken out against it for non compliance in April and May 2013 which Siticable had appealed against. When that didn’t go very far, it decided to lodge its writ petition seeking redressal and  justice.

     

    Siticable’s first hearing was yesterday when the lawyer on behalf of the tax authority asked for a day’s time to come up with its side of the case. “We had deposited the tax and had also filled the form 10 as per requirements. Yet the authorities were after us. So we went to court to request that no coercive action be taken by them ,” says Siticable CFO Sanjay Goyal.

     

    Hathway is of the opinion that entertainment tax collection is a duty that has been undertaken by the LCOs for several years now and that is how it should be. Its writ petition states that the order passed against it was unreasonable.

     

    MSOs say that they are alright with collecting the tax and passing it on to the department but traditionally it had been the job of the LCO to do that. However, in case of  a lapse of payment by the LCO, the MSO should not be asked to cough up the remaining money is what they say.

     

    The case will come up for hearing today. Who knows whether the Delhi High Court will give a stay order or decide on its fate tomorrow itself.

  • TRAI gives final deadlines for filling subscriber details in DAS Phase II cities

    TRAI gives final deadlines for filling subscriber details in DAS Phase II cities

    MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) may have once again extended the rope for stakeholders of digitisation but with a warning that they would get no further extension. In a recently issued notice, fresh and “final” deadlines have been given out for entering the subscriber details in the subscriber management system (SMS) in DAS phase II cities.

     

    The regulator has already given two extensions of the deadlines earlier for collecting customer application forms (CAF) and entry of these details in the SMS. However, this comes as a warning from the regulator. It says that 23 cities (Rajkot, Surat, Vadodara, Faridabad, Mysore, Aurangabad, Nasik, Pimpri-Chinchwad, Pune, Sholapur, Amritsar, Ludhiana, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Agra, Allahabad, Ghaziabad, Kanpur, Lucknow, Meerut, Varanasi, Chandigarh and Howrah) have completed 90 per cent of the task and the MSOs in these cities have been ordered to cut off signals from 27 January to subscribers who haven’t given their CAFs.

     

    7 February is the last date for Bhopal, Indore and Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh; while Vishakhapatnam and Srinagar have time till 28 February. However, state of Tamil Nadu and Hyderabad city have not been given any date due to litigation processes that are pending regarding DAS.

     

    Eight other cities (Patna, Ahmedabad, Ranchi, Bengaluru, Kalyan-Dombivali, Nagpur, Navi Mumbai and Thane) have been given 31 January as the last date. Subscribers have been requested to cooperate with the process and submit their CAFs, failing which MSOs will have to cut off signals to their TVs or will be in breach of law.

     

    MSOs will have to provide bills with exact breakup of charges and subscribers will have to insist for a bill and receipt or see blackout on their screens.

     

    Click here to read the full notice

  • India’s Doordarshan selects Harris Broadcast for nationwide digital transition

    India’s Doordarshan selects Harris Broadcast for nationwide digital transition

    NEW DELHI: Harris Broadcast, a market share leader of content management and network infrastructure solutions serving the global broadcast, communication service provider, government and enterprise markets, today announced it has been selected by national broadcaster Doordarshan to deploy a new DVB-T2 transmission infrastructure across the country.

     

    The government of India is pushing ahead with plans to complete the move from analogue to digital television transmission by 2017. As the leading public service broadcaster in India, Doordarshan has an obligation to cover the whole country and to reflect the diversity of Indian society, including content in the more than 40 languages. At the same time, it is promoting a boost in quality and viewer engagement by rolling out high definition channels, as well as delivering its multi-lingual content across multiple platforms including mobile devices in the future.

     

    “This is not only a large-scale project for Doordarshan, but it is also one of the most high profile and important projects the broadcaster has undertaken,” said Joe Khodeir, senior vice president Asia at Harris Broadcast. “Our DVB-T2 solution maximises spectrum capacity, allowing Doordarshan to roll out multiple channels serving different communities as well as offer multiple HD channels. For a project of this scope and significance, Doordarshan looked for a partner with a strong local service commitment and presence along with best-in-class technologies that delivered the lowest lifecycle costs.  Our Maxiva™ ULX architecture provides the best power efficiency in the market, which was a critical consideration for Doordarshan when energy consumption is such a large part of the operating cost.”

     

    The first of two transmission contracts awarded to Harris Broadcast adds HD channels to digital multiplexes in four major metropolitan areas. Each facility will be served with a new 6kW Harris Broadcast Maxiva ULX DVB-T2 transmitter. The second contract is for 19 Maxiva ULX transmitters, which will be used to roll out digital transmission to the regions of India. In the first instance, these will carry standard definition channels in their multiplexes, but the flexibility of the transmitter and infrastructure design allows for an easy upgrade to HD when the time comes.

     

    The Maxiva ULX is a liquid-cooled, solid-state transmitter built on a modular architecture for maximum flexibility in inputs, transmission standards and power outputs. By incorporating Harris Broadcast PowerSmart® technology, the Maxiva ULX uses the minimum energy for the radiated power, produces less heat and occupies the smallest footprint in the industry. Together, this provides simplified installation, easier maintenance and reduced total cost of ownership over the lifetime of the transmitter.