June 2006

Friday, June 02, 2006 -- The Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal has now decided to charge commission on the petitions, claims and suits for recovery of money or an outstanding amount.

May 2006

Monday, May 08, 2006 -- Cable Operators in the Valley switched off several TV channels after being threatened by a little known militant outfit, Al Madina Regiment, which said they were encouraging “ Immorality” and “Waywardness” among Kashmiris.

Long Live The Bureaucracy Country be dammed

After the Delhi High Court order dated March 10, 2006 to implement CAS within four weeks, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting is running helter skelter, unable to decide whether to go to the Supreme Court against the order or implement CAS. Going to the Supreme Court does not seem a viable move as the High Court has very strongly condemned the government for being a spoil sport in implementing CAS on some pretext or the other and also for ignoring the earlier orders dated December 04 and December 26, 2003 in cases related to implementation of CAS or its withdrawal altogether. The Government was also rapped for ignoring the orders of two learned Judges of the Madras High Court who refused to defer the CAS implementation. The next obvious action is to implement CAS.

Long Live The Bureaucracy Country be dammed

After the Delhi High Court order dated March 10, 2006 to implement CAS within four weeks, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting is running helter skelter, unable to decide whether to go to the Supreme Court against the order or implement CAS. Going to the Supreme Court does not seem a viable move as the High Court has very strongly condemned the government for being a spoil sport in implementing CAS on some pretext or the other and also for ignoring the earlier orders dated December 04 and December 26, 2003 in cases related to implementation of CAS or its withdrawal altogether. The Government was also rapped for ignoring the orders of two learned Judges of the Madras High Court who refused to defer the CAS implementation. The next obvious action is to implement CAS.

April 2006

Wednesday, April 05, 2006 --  Prasar Bharati CEO K.S. Sarma announced the launching of the SMS news headline service, in collaboration with ACL Wireless Limited, a leading provider of cutting-edges Channels–DD India, DD National and DD News–could be downloaded on third generation mobile phones the world over by April-end.

March 2006

Saturday, March 04, 2006 -- Zee cine awards held in Mauritius.

Digital Cable Television An Overview

This article describes the technological building blocks of a present day Digital Cable TV System. It also explains how the existing coaxial cable distribution networks can be upgraded to modern bi-directional hybrid fiber coaxial networks. After describing how this new infrastructure could be utillised by cable service providers to offer to their subscribers a variety of new enhanced/ interactive services it concludes with a brief review of TRAIs recommendations on digitalization of Cable TV Networks in India.