Number of digital cable TV subscribers in India is expected to reach 61 million in 2015 from 6 million in 2011, says Rohan Dhamija, co-head, India Practice, Analysys Mason, at the Broadcast Digitization Summit organized by Telecom Lead, India’s No.1 B2B portal dedicated to telecom industry.
Analogue subscription will reduce by more than half to 41 million by 2015 from 88 million in 2011.
MSOs will face significant execution challenges given the large number of set top boxes required to be installed. As an example, the operational challenge of executing the 30 June 2012 deadline on Phase 1 of digitization has already led to a delay / postponing of the deadline by 4 months.
The Television Networks (Regulation) Amendment Bill 2011 aims to digitize the entire country in a phased manner. The subset clause in the bill mandates a complete analogue switch off by end of year 2014.
Meanwhile cable digitization will also help boost the DTH industry. DTH players will be positively impacted by the digitization process. The financial and execution challenges faced by the cable industry through the government mandated digitization process will open up a window of opportunity for DTH.
Source: http://cablequest.org/news/cable-news/item/283-according-to-analsys-mason-india-to-have-61-million-digital-cable-tv-subscribers-by-2015.html
Source: http://cablequest.org/news/cable-news/item/283-according-to-analsys-mason-india-to-have-61-million-digital-cable-tv-subscribers-by-2015.html
Source: http://cablequest.org/news/cable-news/item/283-according-to-analsys-mason-india-to-have-61-million-digital-cable-tv-subscribers-by-2015.html
Source: http://cablequest.org/news/cable-news/item/283-according-to-analsys-mason-india-to-have-61-million-digital-cable-tv-subscribers-by-2015.html
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