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NEW DELHI: Acknowledging that the major hurdle in digitization presently is the absence of digital receiver sets and the fact that about 45 per cent...
NEW DELHI: Broadcasters have expressed the hope that the government will ease the taxation structure for the initial three to five years and introduces policies...
NEW DELHI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has take up the demands of stakeholders in the broadcasting industry and recommended to the...
NEW DELHI: While demanding various reductions and exemptions of taxes and duties that would be beneficial for the media and broadcasting industry in general,...
MUMBAI: Rajan Raheja-promoted Hathway Cable & Datacom plans to raise Rs 1 billion as debt to fund the first phase of conditional access system (CAS). The...
MUMBAI: Maharashtra revenue minister Narayan Rane is threatening to take action against cable operators who underreport their subscriber figures. The way out: a survey to expose...
MUMBAI: China supplied 35 per cent of the worldwide digital set-top box market (including the Chinese market) in 2004, and more than 50 per cent of...
MUMBAI: The ad revenue in China has been growing at the rate of 12 per cent a year. It reached $ 3.4 billion in 2004. This...
NEW DELHI: Broadcast and cable regulator Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has directed country’s first DTH TV service provider to replace set-top boxes (STBs), if...
MUMBAI: Saddled with bad debts and a “dud” investment on conditional access system (CAS), leading multi system operator IndusInd Media & Communications (IMC) has done a...
A slow deployment of set-top boxes (STBs) will suit a small cable network like Seven Star. Which is why Nadir Ali, one of the founder-promoters, is...
What do you do when you are finding it hard to push your digital set-top boxes (STBs) and broadband Internet service? Bundle them. That is what...
It has been the worst period of inactivity in the cable TV industry. Since the price freeze on subscription rates imposed by the Telecom Regulatory Authority...
MUMBAI: Broadcasters are weighing the impact of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s recommendations. Of foremost concern is the suggestion that pay channels launched after December...
MUMBAI: Hathway Cable & Datacom is preparing for a digital cable television rollout by October-end with 140 channels in Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore. This will entail...
NEW DELHI: A section of the cable industry has said that the cable and broadcast regulator should be “empowered” to have a say in the final...
MUMBAI: The Indian Broadcasting Foundation has urged the government to exempt the broadcast industry from service tax as part of its wish list for the forthcoming...
NEW DELHI: A delegation of cable operators and multi-system operators (MSO) today met the new information and broadcasting minister Jaipal Reddy, exhorting him to implement the...
NEW DELHI: The rates of cable subscription in non-CAS zones in Delhi are likely to go up by about Rs 90 from 1 January, 2004. Owing...
NEW DELHI: The central government today came into play to resolve the conditional access imbroglio in South Delhi area by issuing a notification that makes it...
NEW DELHI: The federal government has thrown the CAS ball back into the state’s court by saying, it would be unwarranted to conclude that the Union...
NEW DELHI: What has come as a surprise to the cable industry is the response to conditional access system (CAS) from the people of South Delhi....
NEW DELHI: With the conditional access system (CAS) gone for a six at least in Delhi and Mumbai, Sony Entertainment TV (SET) India is looking at...
NEW DELHI: The Ministry of Communications and IT has raised the issue of interoperability of set-top boxes (STBs) to be used in the implementation of conditional...
NEW DELHI: In a written reply in the country’s Lower House of Parliament (Lok Sabha) today Prasad said that officers of the I&B ministry had visited...
MUMBAI: The Hinduja group owned multi system operator (MSO) INCableNet’s conditional access system (CAS) branded as INDigital is ready to roll. Top officials of the multi-system...
MUMBAI: “Mission ‘CAS’hmir”! This rather quaint turn of phrase about sums up the concerted effort the major MSOs will be making in the coming month to...
MUMBAI: The ministry of communications and information technology’s Electronics Regional Test Laboratory (ERTL) has quality tested the digital set top box of Celetron, which will be...
NEW DELHI: Getting first off the blocks, Siticable Network Limited, the cable subsidiary of the Subhash Chandra-promoted Zee Telefilms, has begun seeding set-top boxes in the...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Even as the Indian government today continued its efforts to convince the media and critics that everything is hunky-dory on the conditional access front,...
MUMBAI: The implementation of the conditional access system (CAS) rollout could have created several opportunities for the cable trade and made life easier for the consumers....
MUMBAI: Even as several multi system operators have announced tie ups with global conditional access companies and vendors for imports, a few Indian set top manufacturing...
MUMBAI: Even as several multi system operators have announced tie ups with global conditional access companies and vendors for imports, a few Indian set top manufacturing...
NEW DELHI: The multi-system operators are serious on implementation of conditional access system (CAS). The first consignment of set-top boxes (STBs) ordered by the Subhash Chandra-promoted...
NEW DELHI: Even as the Indian government was initiating steps to see that the rollout of conditional access system (CAS) becomes as least bumpy as possible,...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: ESPN Star Sports has just upped the ante in its confrontation with Hinduja Group MSO INCableNet over the issue of outstanding dues....
NEW DELHI: Even as the Indian government in a much-awaited notification finalised the price of the basic tier of cable service comprising free to air channels,...
MUMBAI: A JP Morgan report points out that the monthly financial charge (depending on the price of the set top box) will be a key determinant...
MUMBAI: MDI India, one of the Bangalore-based Arcom group of companies, has announced that it is geared up to meet the deadline of 14 July 2003...
MUMBAI: Will the Indian consumer get a raw deal after the implementation of the conditional access system (CAS) Experts, who beg to differ with the popular...
MUMBAI: B4U Movies, the stand alone channel that is going the pay way, aims to complete the seeding of set top boxes throughout the country by...
The outlay for the I&B ministry in the 10th Five Year Plan has been recommended at Rs 85,500 million, of which the broadcasting sector gets the...
Cable & satellite TV professionals and entrepreneurs made their annual pilgrimage to Indian cable TV hardware and software trade show ScaT India 2001, held at the...
