MUMBAI: Giving more power to the local cable operator (LCO), India’s only HITS service JAINHITS has come up with special schemes that will enable LCOs to...
KOLKATA: A revision in channel package rates is on the cards following the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (TRAI) directions to multi system operators (MSOs) last...
NEW DELHI: A campaign “Cable ka Shahenshah, DTH ka Baap” has been launched by JAINHITS, India’s only HITS based Direct to Network (DTN) service, relating to quality of services...
BENGALURU: The Tamil Nadu government today announced the transfer and appointment of Mahesan Kaisarajan as the Director of Information and Public Relations and Managing Director of...
KOLKATA: Multi-system operator (MSO) Meghbela Cable & Broadband Services aims to seed 10 lakh set-top boxes in areas earmarked for digitisation in phase III and phase...
These are changing times for the Indian cable TV industry, what with gross (consumer) billing starting in phase I cities and 27 January being the last...
KOLKATA: That the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has asked MSOs in Kolkata to start gross (consumer) billing from 15 December, 2013, indiantelevision.com had already...
KOLKATA: On 6 December last year, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) met the multi-system operators (MSOs) in Kolkata to extend the deadline for initiating gross (consumer)...
MUMBAI: A year of risks and several speed breakers has come to an end and the horizons of the New Year are already showing a silver...
MUMBAI: Soon consumers will find bills coming to them for using cable TV service. And the message will be reaching them loud and clear through a...
It’s the festival of lights. And for many the festival of noise courtesy exploding fireworks. In the hope of reducing the number of those belonging to...
KOLKATA: Since the time the process of cable TV digitisation started, if any faction has been really troubled, it’s the local cable operators (LCOs). To make...
KOLKATA: Lately, indiantelevision.com has done a series of reports about local cable operators (LCOs) being unhappy with the process of digitisation. A critical area of concern...
MUMBAI: Consumer billing has been a major irritant for all those involved in the process of India’s cable TV digitisation. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India...
MUMBAI: There’s been a lot of press and media coverage about the process of cable TV digitisation over the past year or so. Most of it...
MUMBAI: The Gujarat Cable Operators Association (GCOA) has approached the High Court of Gujarat against the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), the central government of...
MUMBAI: Even as industry prepares for phase III of digitisation, here comes a technology that is likely to get more than a warm welcome from cable...
KOLKATA: The Kolkata based Multi System Operators (MSOs) and local cable TV operators (LCOs) had uninvited guests last week. They were taken by surprise when the...
KOLKATA: First it was Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari who appealed to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) to delay implementation of ad cap...
KOLKATA: Multi System Operators (MSOs) and local cable operators (LCOs) in Kolkata are busy collecting the consumer application forms (CAF) and feeding in details for the...
KOLKATA: Ritika Saha, a city based Gujarati engineer, recently installed a set top box (STB) at a cost of Rs 1,400 and has still not been...
NEW DELHI: It has been saying it will bring some order to the TV channel aggregation and distribution business. And the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India...
MUMBAI: India‘s multisystem operators (MSOs) got a dressing down yesterday from TRAI boss Rahul Khullar about the lack of KYC or CRF forms giving details about...
NEW DELHI: Cable TV operators in Kolkata have launched an agitation against the multi-system operators (MSOs) and broadcasters for failing to set proper rates and bouquets...
NEW DELHI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has initiated action against cable operators who are violating the new laws relating to digitisation. It is...
NEW DELHI: Telecom regulatory authority of India (Trai) chairman Rahul Khullar today indicated that a consultation paper would be issued shortly about the revenue sharing and...
NEW DELHI: Although there is no reference to any charge being levied on right of way given to cable television operators to use electricity poles after...
NEW DELHI: Alarmed by the disruption of the Open House on Media Ownership in Hyderabad by local cable operators and multi-system operators, the Telecom Regulatory Authority...
NEW DELHI: Indian multi-system operator Bhagyanagar Digital Services Pvt Ltd of Hyderbad is using selected Conax to transmit signals to cable TV operators with a cost...
NEW DELHI: An open house called by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) in Hyderabad on media ownership had to be called off mid-way when...
NEW DELHI: The supreme court today admitted for hearing an appeal by united cable operators welfare association (Ucowa) challenging the revenue sharing model under the digital...
NEW DELHI: The Madhya Pradesh high court today extended till 15 May the stay on switch-off of analogue signals in the cities of Indore, Bhopal and...
NEW DELHI: The Allahabad high court has clarified that that the information and broadcasting ministry has been mandated under the Cable TV Networks Rules 1994 to...
NEW DELHI: The Foundation (IBF) has got itself involved in the on-going legal battle between MSOs and LCOs over extension of digitisation deadline in Bengaluru...
NEW DELHI: Ahmedabad can wait for DAS. That was the decision of the Gujarat High Court which stayed the switching off of analogue signals to beyond...
NEW DELHI: Organisations of cable operators in Delhi have expressed surprise at reports that the Delhi Government is attempting to charge some local cable operators with...
NEW DELHI: For the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), it is time to take audit of the first phase of implementation of digital addressable system...
NEW DELHI: Cable TV operators from Bangalore and Mysore staged a black flag protest here to oppose the deadline for the second phase of digitisation on...
New Delhi: Even as a petition by Chennai Metro Cable Operators Association (CMCOA) seeking extension of implementation of the digital access system is pending hearing, the...
MUMBAI: Hathway Cable & Datacom, India‘s leading multi-system operator (MSO), has said that on account of digitisation it is in the process of finalising fresh terms...
NEW DELHI: Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Minister Manish Tewari will meet a delegation of Delhi-based local cable operators (LCOs) on Wednesday to hear their complaints with...
MUMBAI: Alarmed by the mushrooming of cable channels, the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting (MIB) has sought the recommendations of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI)...
MUMBAI: There could soon be caps on market shares of multi-system operators (MSOs) and local cable operators (LCOs) in a city, district, state and the country....
Hathway Cable & Datacom has an ambitious investment plan of Rs 10 billion as India opens up to digitisation across the country. In the first...
NEW DELHI: The Ministry of Information & Broadcasting today placed before the Delhi High Court a Self Regulatory Guidelines for the Broadcasting Sector (2008) that proposes...
Nripendra Misra is a suave IAS officer with a reputation of being completely above board, and perhaps lacking the ‘guile‘ that puts many others in the...
SET Discovery has been riding high on the wave of ICC cricket for over four years. Having the ICC Championship and World Cup in a single...
The cable TV industry is on the cusp of change. The multi-system operators (MSOs) have chalked out plans to roll out digital cable, a transition that...
NEW DELHI: MSOs are divided on the issue whether carriage fee is retained by them and the basic tier fee of cable channels by local cable...
Chief executive K Jayaraman is setting the tone for Hathway Cable & Datacom‘s duel in the digital era.Part of his aggressive ploy is to expand the...