Ministry of information and broadcasting released the 3rd updated list regarding the areas which will be affected by the digital switch over in DAS Phase III in India.
Based on comments/data received from the State/UT Governments, the lists of the following 3 States/UTs have been updated – Goa, Meghalaya and Sikkim.
The previous two lists were released in October and November catering for the urban areas of 16 states and 8 states respectively.
The digitization of cable television in India started with Phase I which concerned 6 metros and Phase II which included 40 big cities. The deadline for Phase III is fast approaching on December 31 this year and the urban regions will be affected by the switch over. By December 2016, the digital switch over process should be completed with Phase IV the last hurdle to be tackled next year.
MIB revealed that DAS Phase III is set to cover 38.79 million television households across 630 districts and 7,709 urban areas. The digitisation of analogue cable TV homes in the third phase will span 29 states and five union territories, including Delhi and Chandigarh, which were covered in Phases I and II of DAS along with other metro and semi-metro cities.
Phase III of DAS will cover all other urban areas (municipal corporations/municipalities) except cities/towns/areas that were covered in Phases I and Phase II. The cut-off date for Phase III is 31 December 2015.
More than 24 million set-top boxes (STBs) have been seeded by Multi-system operators (MSOs) and direct-to-home (DTH) players in DAS Phase I and II.
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