Despite the fact more and more cities in India are switching from analogue to digital signals, the government of India is concerned over the several setbacks areas falling under Phase I and Phase II digitisation are still facing despite the fact the deadline was nearly a year ago. To gauge the problems, Manish Tewari, the minister of Information and Broadcasting in India has asked for an external audit.
On top of that, several representatives from the industry including Roop Sharma, President, Cable Operators Federation of India have already given their take on the digitisation process so far on November 21, in front of Parliamentary Standing Committee on IT which is also conducting its own investigation into the matter. Roop Sharma said, “We have demanded that the government should first sort out the Phase I and II of digitisation before moving ahead with Phase III and IV.”
The group also told the committee that India has lost USD 10 billion in importing STBs from China and should focus on domestic vendors for Phase III and Phase IV. However that might be a problem as Phase III is already under way and the government is not putting the brakes on digitisation any time soon. It expects to complete the process
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