Ministry of Information & Broadcasting (MIB) has granted 25 multi-system operators licences. The latest approvals take total number of MSOs in the country to over 190.
The Ministry has quicken the pace of MSO registrations to meet the the deadline for Phase III of digital addressable system (DAS). The biggest name among the MSOs that received provisional licence was Reliance Jio Media.
The third leg of DAS will cover 38.79 million television households across 630 districts and 7,709 urban areas, MIB has announced. The date for completion of phase III project has been extended to 31 December, 2015. India is likely to miss the deadline again, given that MSOs have failed to sign interconnect agreements with broadcasters. Cable operators are still in the process of seeding STBs in areas covered under Phase III of Tv digitisation.
The latest list of approved MSO licence-holders include; Den Saurashtra Entertainment, which has received the permission to operate in all regions in Gujarat covered under DAS. Sharma Electronics has obtained licence for Chamba district, Bakloh Chawari, Siunta in Chamba district and Nurpur, Kotla, Damtal. In the North-eastern part of India, Axom Communication & Cable has won approval for Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim.
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