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WWIL consumes Rs 2.12 bn from rights issue
MUMBAI: Wire and Wireless (India) Limited (WWIL) has mopped up Rs 2.12 billion from the first tranche of its Rs 4.5 billion rights issue. The remaining amount will pour in by March-end as the Subhash Chandra-promoted cable TV distribution company plans to go aggressive on its Headend-In-The-Sky (HITS) operations.
Delivering a HITS
Going into 2010, television in India is set for a new age of digitisation. With the Union Government approving Headend-In-The-Sky (HITS), the Indian television viewer will soon get a cheaper option to watch digital television.
Trai likely to fix non-CAS cable tariff by May 31
NEW DELHI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on Thursday told the Supreme Court that tariff fixation for direct-to-home (DTH) services required to be considered in the light of entire distribution market, including cable services in the country, seeking time to complete the exercise.
Media: The wonder decade
Couch surfing has become more than passive television viewing over the past decade. Indian TV sets now have DVD-like picture quality with loads of value add-ons thanks to new technologies like DTH, CAS and IPTV. The country has about 130 million television households, including 96 million Cable & Satellite (C&S) homes. As per TAM, average time spent watching television per day was 153 minutes in 2008
Last mile upgradation will protect turf of cable operators
NEW DELHI: Local cable operators need not fear the entry of DTH, IPTV or Headend-In-The-Sky (HITS) if there is ‘necessary last mile upgradation,’ industry experts said. The speakers at the one-day SATCAB Symposium, organised by the All India Dish Antennae Aavishkaar Sangh, felt that HITS was, in fact, the cheapest way of digitisation and should, thus, be welcomed. But it was necessary for the local cable operators and MSOs to improve coordination among them.
WWIL targets townships for HITS expansion
With a clear strategy of targeting the 20 million-plus television consumers residing in townships and residential campuses of various government and public sector undertakings, Wire & Wireless India Ltd (WWIL), the country’s first Headend-in-the-Sky (HITS) operator, aims to add up to two million subscribers in the next 12 months, while competing with existing direct-to-home (DTH) operators.
Focus 2009: DTH players seek rationalisation of taxes
The DTH (direct to home) industry is seeking tax rationalisation from the government for the industry to grow and to speed up the digitisation process. The industry captains say that the taxation on the sector in India is possibly the highest across the globe. “When the licenses were issued by the government, there was no tax and we rolled out the product at a particular price.
DTH operators feel HITS will expand the digital market
NEW DELHI: Direct-to-home operators said they did not treat the cable operator as their competitor and felt DTH was simply one other way for the country to get digitised. They were also unanimous that Headend-in-the-Sky (HITS) would not hit them adversely as that would also help expedite the march towards digitisation. In any case, they felt that the country was large enough to accommodate different kinds of technologies.
Cable-DTH-HITS: complementary and supplementary
The spotlight of the second day at Focus 2009 was on the Direct-to-Home (DTH) sector in a technical session with the representatives from the leading DTH players in the Indian market Dish TV and Airtel DTH on the same panel. The panel comprised of Mr Rajesh Khattar, President Dish TV; Ajai Puri, Director & CEO, Airtel DTH; Mr Alan Dishington, GM, NDS India and Mr. Mohit Ralhan, Head- Media Baring Private Equity Partners Ltd. The session was moderated by Ms Roop Sharma, President, Cable Operators Federation of India (COFI).
Modified TV channels norms to include HITS operators
The Government on Thursday said in an official statement that it had approved a modification of policy guidelines for downlinking of television channels to enable broadcasters to provide content to Headend-In-The-Sky (HITS) operators. Earlier in November, the Cabinet had cleared the proposal of Ministry of Information and Broadcasting to issue policy guidelines for HITS operators to provide services in the country.
