Kerala Communicators cable (KCCL), is a public limited firm and is an initiative of cable TV operators in Kerala under the umbrella of cable operator association (COA). There are 3068 operators with KCCL of this 2500 operators are shareholders. The group mainly focuses on digitizing rural regions of Kerala while covering entire 14 districts. KCCL operators represent 70% of cable TV services in the south western Indian state of Kerala.
The group procures digital STBs from Coship, My Box and Logic Eastern. KCCL’s Executive Director Nasir Hassan Anwar states that firm is one among the first few MSOs that supported indigenous STB procurement and there are no common middleware that is being used by the group’s operators. Currently KCCL’s headend is being designed to provide IPTV solutions as well.
KCCL is also emerging into broadband and has tied up with RailTel for transportation of signals to the last mile operators. KCCL in tie up with “RailWire Corporation of India Ltd”, a Railtel Venture, is on testing Phase to provide broadband connectivity to the state’s inhabitants and has connected 5000 households so far. KCCL operators are also involved with Kerala Government’s E district project connecting panchayath offices.
KCCL offers 200 digital channels in MPEG 2 format, 40 channels in MPEG 4 and 18 HD channels along with 17 audio channels. KCCL procures CAS from Conax. Recently KCCL entered into pilot project for deploying Conax’s cardless solutions. This pilot project involves upgrading KCCL’s existing Conax Contego security back end to include Conax cardless CA and deploys Coship’s STBs with chipsets from ALi Corporation.
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