Deadline over, Mumbai alone achieves 100% digitisation
1 Nov 2012 8:30 AM IST
With cable TV digitisation being mandatory from 1 November, in all the metros, the figures released by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry, show that the government has been able to achieve the 100 percent mark in only Mumbai. The overall cable tv digitisation in the four metros had touched 91 percent by 30 October and the DTH digitisation had touched 94 percent.
In Delhi the cable tv digitisation has reached 95 percent and in Kolkata it had gone up to 83 percent, however, Chennai paints a grim picture with cable tv digitisation touching only 62 percent in the city. However, if the DTH digitisation is taken into account, the figures do see a surge, in Delhi it goes upto 97 percent, Kolkata touches 85 percent and Chennai sees a big jump from 62 to 86 percent. Even West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee had criticised the move of centre for making setup boxes mandotary, the CM had said that the centre should have first assessed whether set-top boxes are available in the market and they should have looked into whether the people have the purchasing capacity.
According to the ministry as per the data provided by the DTH operators the number of DTH subscribers in Mumbai has gone upto 7.53 lakh, whereas in Delhi it is 10.17 lakh, Kolkata has 3.20 lakh subscribers and Chennai has 7.11 lakh subscribes as on 30.10.20212. Number of DTH subscribers in the 4 metro cities has touched 28.01 lakhs. Also there has been s a huge surge in the installation of Set Top Boxes (STBs) in the metro cities, especially in Delhi, a total of 1,05,180 Boxes were installed out of which 65000 boxes were installed in Delhi alone.
The ministry, in the meanwhile, has continued its awareness campaign and has decided to intensify its SMS Campaign to reach out to the remaining few people who are yet to install Set Top Boxes. Ministry teams will continue their visits for coming few days to ensure that the analogue signals are completely switched off.
In Delhi the cable tv digitisation has reached 95 percent and in Kolkata it had gone up to 83 percent, however, Chennai paints a grim picture with cable tv digitisation touching only 62 percent in the city. However, if the DTH digitisation is taken into account, the figures do see a surge, in Delhi it goes upto 97 percent, Kolkata touches 85 percent and Chennai sees a big jump from 62 to 86 percent. Even West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee had criticised the move of centre for making setup boxes mandotary, the CM had said that the centre should have first assessed whether set-top boxes are available in the market and they should have looked into whether the people have the purchasing capacity.
According to the ministry as per the data provided by the DTH operators the number of DTH subscribers in Mumbai has gone upto 7.53 lakh, whereas in Delhi it is 10.17 lakh, Kolkata has 3.20 lakh subscribers and Chennai has 7.11 lakh subscribes as on 30.10.20212. Number of DTH subscribers in the 4 metro cities has touched 28.01 lakhs. Also there has been s a huge surge in the installation of Set Top Boxes (STBs) in the metro cities, especially in Delhi, a total of 1,05,180 Boxes were installed out of which 65000 boxes were installed in Delhi alone.
The ministry, in the meanwhile, has continued its awareness campaign and has decided to intensify its SMS Campaign to reach out to the remaining few people who are yet to install Set Top Boxes. Ministry teams will continue their visits for coming few days to ensure that the analogue signals are completely switched off.
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