Sunday, January 26, 2014

India: Phase III, Phase IV deadlines clubbed together

Not only is the Information and Broadcasting Ministry (MIB) planning on keeping with the final digitisation date for India, the ministry will also most likely club the deadlines for both Phase III and Phase IV together and make it December 31, 2014.
On January 21, 2014, television industry stakeholders including I&B Minister Manish Tewari, Secretary Bimal Julka and Joint Secretary – Broadcasting Supriya Sahu came together for a meeting discussing the ongoing digitsation process in India. A task force member has been quoted, “It was a normal meeting. We discussed about the issues that were still to be tackled in the first two phases of digitisation. Also mentioned was the single deadline for the remaining two phases of digitisation.”
India is in the midst of digitisation. And according to the ministry, the first two phases of digitisation, which encompassed of four cities and then 38 cities respectively have been successfully completed. However the process has also led to problems between LCOs and MSOs in these regions.

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