Bangalore now joins the list of cities in India that is struggling with successfully completing digitisation under its given deadline. So far Bangalore MSOs have only completed about 30%-40% of the total data collection necessary. The deadline for the collection has been set at September 20 which means several thousands of households might be facing cable blackouts if the procedure is not completed as mandated by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).
With cable TV entering an era of digitisation, millions of television viewers currently are able to view hundreds of channels free of cost. R Narasimha Swamy of Broadcast Engineering Consultants India Ltd. (BECIL) said, “The most important aspect of digitisation was collection of consumer application forms (CAF) from each of the Digital Addressable Cable TV Systems (DAS) subscribers.”
Bangalore now joins Hyderabad and Kolkata, two other cities struggling to conform with their own deadlines. While both Bangalore and Hyderabad come under Phase II of digitisation, Kolkata where close to 0.18 million households experienced cable blackouts in August, was covered under Phase I of digitisation. In fact the government has already started preparing MSOs for Phase III of digitisation expected to begin in September.v
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