Delhi-The slow spread of Conditional Access Systems (CAS) to prevent unauthorized reception of digital TV channels in India is worrying the government, Asha Swarup, Secretary of the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, told the India Digital Networks Summit. “We are conducting studies to find out why it has been slow,” she said. TRAI permanent advisor Rajiv Choubey said policing and strong enforcement are needed in order for CAS to spread faster. The consensus view at the summit was that digitization and conditional access are the best way to organize the fragmented Indian cable TV sector with its 60,000 or so last mile operators spread out nationally. “Within two years, the cable sector will be more orderly,” predicted Jagjit Singh Kohli, whose new cable company Digicable, plans to roll out analogue cable initially, followed by digital cable nationally. “But you will see consolidation accelerating within a year.”
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