MUMBAI: Cable operators across the country, and particularly in Maharashtra, seem to have upped the ante in their confrontation with the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India...
MUMBAI: With telcos handing out data at cheap rates in various package sizes under innovative schemes, mobile data consumption has increased rapidly in India in the...
MUMBAI: The Digital Addressable System (DAS) Phase III deadline came and went and what it’s left behind is chaos and carnage. The analogue signals, which went...
GOA: While the direct-to-home (DTH) sector has managed to attract investment from private investors because of its growth, the cable industry will be able to do so only if multi-system...
GOA: Collaboration is the only way for the Indian digital industry to go forward – particularly if it involves the last mile operator (LMO) as well...
NEW DELHI: All Digital Network Ltd of Gandhi Nagar in Bangalore has been directed by the Telecom Disputes Settlement and Arbitration Tribunal (TDSAT) to main status quo and...
New Delhi/Mumbai: When developed countries like the United States and the United Kingdom decided to adopt digital addressable systems (DAS), they knew there would be major...
KOLKATA: Kolkata-based Cable Operators Sangram Committee – has extended its helping hand to last mile owners (LMOs) in Patna. The city boasts of approximately 2.5 –...
MUMBAI: It was in February 2014, when Tony D’silva took charge as the MD and group CEO of IMCL and laid the vision of adopting a...
KOLKATA: The Cable Virtual Network Operator (CVNO) in Kolkata is moving fast in order to meet its 15 December launch deadline. In the latest, more than...
KOLKATA: The last mile owners (LMOs) in Kolkata are gearing up to stake claim on their subscribers. Apart from uniting and setting up their own control...
MUMBAI: The multi system operators (MSOs) and broadcaster Star India could have moved into the no-war zone, after Star declared that it would give its channels...
KOLKATA: The last mile owners (LMOs) in Kolkata are yet again gearing for owning their subscribers. While earlier a group comprising 100 LMOs had announced their...
MUMBAI: Cable TV subscribers in Odisha will soon get to watch Hindi soaps in high definition (HD) provided they have an Ortel cable connection. The last...
MUMBAI: Even after several deadlines being issued in January regarding implementation of billing in DAS areas, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has not seen...
MUMBAI: Maharashtra Cable Operators Federation (MCOF) that had recently approached the Bombay High Court challenging the payment of entertainment tax, billing and the carriage fee has...
MUMBAI: The national multi-system operators (MSOs) don’t want any more delay in starting the gross billing in the phase I cities. While gross billing has already...
MUMBAI: The last mile operators (LMOs) in Maharashtra have got a further extension until 21 January from filing joint affidavits along with the multi-system operators (MSOs)....
MUMBAI: Maharashtra’s last mile cable TV operators (LMOs) have got some relief. The Bombay High Court today gave them interim relief to the LMOs from filing...
MUMBAI: The Maharashtra Cable Operators’ Federation (MCOF) moved the Bombay High Court on 13 December challenging the Maharashtra state government’s amended gazette resolution (GR) regarding entertainment...
MUMBAI: The government-mandated DAS has been in limbo for a few months now. Even as set top boxes have rolled out in phase I and phase...
MUMBAI: The easier a process becomes, the better it is. It seems this is the process that Maharashtra Cable Operators’ Foundation (MCOF) has opted for in...
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: It was at indiantelevision.com & MPA’s (Media Partners Asia) India Digital Operators Summit (IDOS) that Mumbai-based cable TV heavyweight and MCOF (Maharashtra Cable Operators Federation)...
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...
MUMBAI: It was at indiantelevision.com & MPA’s (Media Partners Asia) India Digital Operators Summit (IDOS) that Mumbai-based cable TV heavyweight and MCOF (Maharashtra Cable Operators Federation)...
MUMBAI: A mid- week holiday is always welcome and is a good time to catch up with friends and family as well as your favourite TV...
GOA: In this special session, the Maharashtra Cable Operators Federation president Arvind Prabhoo addressed some dire issues currently being faced by the last mile owners (LMOs)....
MUMBAI: Availability of set-top boxes (STBs) is one of the key concerns for the successful roll out of conditional access system, speakers at a workshop on...
NEW DELHI: The Telecom Disputes Settlement Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) has sent back the case related to MSO’s demanding a share of the Rs 77 for FTAs...
One healthy thing is that the industry is moving… maybe slowly in some areas, but it is definitely moving, which was not there earlier. The manufacturers...
After working for decades on the analogue system, 2007 was a huge learning year. Whether from the regulator or from the ministry’s side, or from the...
MUMBAI: Wire & Wireless India Ltd (WWIL), the cable outfit of Zee Network, is on a drive to acquire last mile operators. The company is offering...
Nothing can get more complex than this. It is not only the pay-TV broadcasters and the government who are wanting to take time out for implementation...
It was one piece of news that cable TV networks were waiting to hear for long, too long in actual fact! Buffeted by potential competition...
NEW DELHI: No sooner has a regulator for the broadcast and cable sectors been notified by the Indian government than cracks have started appearing in the...
MUMBAI: Get set for a fresh round of jousting between pay broadcasters and cable operators. The Shiv Sena backed Cable Operators and Distributors Association (CODA), which...
MUMBAI: The tiger roars at CAS again. Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray is slated to meet nearly 1,000 Mumbai-based cable operators on Sunday, 7 September 2003....
MUMBAI: The Hinduja group owned multi system operator (MSO) INCableNet has based its entire conditional access system business model on the last mile operator (LMO). INCableNet...
ETC Networks director and Broadband Pacenet India chairman Jagjit Singh Kohli is a man doing a tight-rope balancing act as far as the conditional access system...
MUMBAI: Mumbai based cable operators have expressed disappointment over the recent comments of I&B secretary Pawan Chopra that indicate that the government might soften its stand...
MUMBAI:The emergence of the HITS (headend in the sky) operator is on the anvil in the fast changing broadcast scenario in the country, even as confusion...
MUMBAI: Zee Group cable arm Siticable is planning to unveil its HITS (headend in the sky) model in April. Zee also plans to leverage some kind...
MUMBAI: Post CAS, the cable trade will don the new mantle of building infrastructure for the convergence era. This is how MSOs and other experts are...