Alcatel-Lucent has bagged the contract to build undersea cable linking Mumbai and France.
Tata group company Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd today said it is constructing a $250-million (about Rs 988 crore) worth cable system for linking Mumbai directly to Paris, London and Madrid via Egypt.
Hathway Cable Internet, one of the largest broadband cable ISPs in India, has introduced a new broadband package -- Silver Super Rush -- that provides 'high-speed Internet up to 512 kbps through cable for just Rs 250 per month.'
The purpose of CAS -- to check piracy -- is defeated, if pay channels can be watched free, as is apparently happening in localities like Devli village near Sainik Farms, Pushp Vihar and Saket, all areas where CAS has been implemented.
Foreign cable companies like Liberty Global Inc, Macquarie Media Group and Star Group want the prime minister to intervene in the digital broadband policy initiatives for the cable industry.
The decision to impose a ban on entire cable network was taken after they (cable operators) failed to stop airing obscene channels as directed earlier.
The Cabrio cable car in Switzerland is the world's first cable car with an open upper deck.
Cable TV operators can register under the Cable Television Network (Regulation) Act, 1995, to provide Internet Protocol Television services without requiring any licence, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has said. In its recommendations, TRAI has also said that the IPTV operators are required to register as cable operators to provide services in the country.
The three undersea cable station owners were asked by Trai to submit the Cable Landing Station - Reference Interconnect Offer,' containing the terms and conditions, charges and time limit for providing access. Now, Trai has approved the RIO of four cable landing stations of VSNL in the country and one each of Bharti and Anil Ambani's Reliance.
Mounting pressure on an apprehensive BJP to implement the Conditional Access System as scheduled on July 15, cable operators on Friday threatened to increase the cable service rates to around Rs 450 in the absence of CAS.
With CAS just round the corner, the cable operators are gearing up to offer value added services. One big initiative that seems to be on the move is the attempt to offer Internet and IPTV.
Fifteen personnel of the public sector company got trapped in a mine Tuesday night when a cage used to carry the personnel fell down after a rope broke, police said.
This is no surprise, given that the deadline for digitisation in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai was October 31 and DTH firms and multiple-system operators were eyeing a windfall.
CNN reported that 'registered voters who watched Tuesday's debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump say, 63% to 37%, that Harris turned in a better performance'.
Faced with the challenge of retaining subscribers, state-owned MTNL is launching a 3-in-1 service, offering voice, broadband and cable TV on a single line while assuring affordability to its customers.
Multiple-system operators feel extending the deadline to submit the forms isn't necessary
A curfew was imposed on Monday morning across Kashmir valley in the wake of the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru in Tihar Jail. Police and paramilitary troops have been deployed across Kashmir to maintain law and order.
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The company has set up its new network platform in India entailing an investement of $30 million which would offer telecom and connectivitysolutions to over 150 customers in the country including banking, insurance and software firms, Cable & Wireless India managing director Sunanda Das said.
Asserting that consumers' interest would be protected from cable TV operators, Trai chairman Pradip Baijal on Friday said consumers should have multiple options like cable, broadband, DTH and set-top boxes to watch satellite TV channels at home.
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If completed, the move would create a 50-50 joint venture valuing Reliance Communications' cable assets at $1 billion.
In partnership with NDS, Hathway can now deliver a combination of broadcast and on-demand digital television to Indian cable subscribers. The new XTV DVR solution will be deployed during this year and will give subscribers control over what they watch and when.
Tourists and skiers seen in Kongdori, Gulmarg, near the Affarwat peak, during a snowstorm on Thursday, February 22, 2024.
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India on Thursday specified a ceiling for charges to be paid by subscribers to cable operators, by the operators to multi system operators and by MSOs to broadcasters for both, pay and free-to-air channels.
Competition Commission of India on Wednesday said it has approved the merger of the media assets of Reliance Industries and Walt Disney Co to create the country's largest media empire. The deal, announced six months ago, has been cleared by the CCI with certain modifications proposed by the two parties.
'Kamal has surfed and navigated a lot of tidal waves, manoeuvring the peaks and troughs, combining rare intelligence and commonly available intuitions to overcome unimaginable crises all his life.' 'There is no looking back at the past, for his only motto has been 'Tomorrow belongs to us'!'
The confusion over conditional access system continued on Saturday with broadcasters and cable operators wrangling over the offer of Rs 72 plus taxes a month for all channels from August 1.
If completed, the 50-50 joint venture would value Reliance Communications' cable assets at $1 billion, the newspaper said, adding Citic Telecom beat out two other bidders from West Asia earlier this month.
Joining the issue of raging controversy over hike in subscription rates of cable channels, the cable operators across the metropolis have decided not to air pay channels for a day from midnight.\n\n\n\n
All cable operators will have to regulate the charging and billing procedure to follow the new telecommunication (broadcasting and cable) services (second) tariff (eighth amendment) order, 2007, from December 1, issued in a notification recently by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India. According to the new regulations, every cable operator of a multi-system operator or a broadcaster will have to give to every subscriber the bill for the charges due.
Sushma Swaraj said the government has sought only three rights through this bill -- determining the number of basic players, the genre of programming to be shown and the amount.
While the extent of Iran's isolation was unclear, many blogs alleged that the cable cuts and outages in West Asia were a ploy by an intelligence agency to disrupt Iranian commerce, targeting an emerging petroleum exchange that the country was shortly hoping to roll out.
