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India has 44.2 mn DTH subs, 825 channels: Trai
MUMBAI: India has 44.21 million private DTH subscribers as of 31 December 2011, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India said in its quarterly report. The total number of registered subscribers is from the six private direct-to-home operators – Dish TV, Tata Sky, Airtel Digital TV, Videocon D2H, Reliance Digital TV and Sun Direct. Digital cable TV, however, is growing slowly in the Cas (conditional access system) notified areas. Cable TV operators have marginally increased the seeding of set-top boxes (STBs) in the Cas areas of Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai during this period. According »»»
Govt & Trai should act on time if digitisation deadline is to be met: Stakeholders
NEW DELHI: Participants at a one-day meet to discuss the march towards digitisation agreed that there would be no difficulty in meeting the deadlines if the government and the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) complete their tasks in time. However, some of the members speaking in different sessions of the Casbaa meet ‘Beyond digital’ did not rule out the possibility of digitisation getting entangled in litigation if adequate steps were not taken till May, since the deadline is 30 June for the first phase covering the four metros. Some of the other speakers were also anguished »»»
DAS to boost viability of niche channels on DTH: Experts
Mumbai, Mar 15 (PTI) The implementation of digital addressable system (DAS), successor to the original conditional access system (CAS) which was supposed to digitise the TV industry, is expected to enhance financial viability of niche channels, industry experts have said. “We are likely to see this happening by the middle of next year. At the moment, even a niche channel, which gets lesser revenues than a mass-market general entertainment channel, has to pay the same amount as carriage fee to a DTH platform provider. “But after digitisation, this is expected to change, since niche channels »»»
Set-top box mandatory for all beginning July 1st?
Cable TV users in Chennai will have to buy a set top box before July 1, when all cable operators will switch to providing signals only in digital mode. This has been directed by the Union information and broadcasting ministry. Some 20 lakh households in the city with non-DTH connections will have to go for set-top boxes to continue watching their favorite television channels. “All households in Chennai which are using the conditional access system (CAS) will have to buy new set-top box from the cable operators. Currently only 2.5 lakh have set-top boxes, while over 20 lakh homes have direct connections »»»
Hathway Cable eyes huge subscriber growth post digitisation
Reports suggest that the government is planning an ordinance to scale up digitisation of the cable and satellite television industry. The move will speed up pay-TV revenues for broadcasters and curtail carriage costs. G Subramanium, chief finance officer of Hathway Cable and Datacom , in an interview to CNBC-TV18, said that in a bid to meet March deadline, government is contemplating an ordinance to expedite digitisation. Subramanium expects to see huge growth in subscribers post digitisation. “Carriage fees will go down for broadcasters post digitisation, but subscription revenue will make up »»»
Apex court orders new tariff formula for DTH operators
In a move that will ensure that the cost of cable channels will continue to remain affordable for consumers even after shifting from analogue to digital services, the Supreme Court last week ordered a new tariff formula for all digital addressable platforms. The apex court has fixed 42 per cent of non-CAS tariffs as the new benchmark for all future commercial agreements between broadcasters, direct-to-home (DTH) firms and MSOs offering digital cable services. This formula will now replace the earlier tariff orders (35 per cent by Trai in July 2010 and 50 per cent by TDSAT in July 2006). Simply »»»
Govt in favour of 74% FDI for DTH: Raghu menon
NEW DELHI: The Information & Broadcasting Ministry would like to take forward the recommendation of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) to up foreign direct investment in direct-to-home to 74 per cent but there are processes involved before this can be done, said I&B secretary Raghu Menon. Menon said DTH had taken television to the remotest corners of the country and so the government would like to encourage the sector. On another issue, he said Trai had recommended a complete switch-off of analogue by 2013, but that was a complex issue and may not be easy to implement. He »»»
