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India's digital cable reach poor

India's digital cable reach poor

Rediff.com18 Mar 2008

According to the estimates prepared by CASBAA, India will require about $12-15 billion investments to upgrade its analogue cable set to digital. At present, India's digital cable reach is less than 20%. Currently, there are about 71 million cable homes in the country out of a total of about 130 million television homes. But only about 6% cable homes are digital. With only 3% broadband penetration, India ranks very low in comparison to countries like Brazil, China & Thailand.