Jain TV ties up with Motorola to launch DTN Cable Services !

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Motorola will soon make its maiden foray into cable TV segment in the country by launching services in the head-end in the sky platform.

On Wednesday, the company announced its tie up with the Jain TV Group company Noida Software Tech Park making it India's first direct-to-network cable service and this comes good two years before the deadline of compulsory digitisation of cable TV network,

reports Ronojoy Banerjee of CNBC-TV18.

This will come as a big benefit to the local cable operators or the LCOs, because in 18 months from now, cable operators will have to compulsorily go in for digitisation of their cable operations.

This will be beneficial for the consumers as they will not be required to shell out substantially more than what they are already paying. Apart from this the consumer will get better technology, services and various other value added services will also be bundled in HITS technology.

According to the announcement, NSTPL, a company owned by Jain Studio, will undertake all investments. The comp0any management has informed that they will invest around Rs 1,500 crore in next five years and they hope to initiate some test runs of this technology by the end of this year.

Motorola the technology partner and Intelsat a leading satellite providers, will not have any equity participation in this company. This technology was approved by the Cabinet nearly five years ago but there was a lot of skepticism, many of the DTH providers did not want to bid for this technology. So, we need to wait and watch how this pans out.


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Intelset will provide transponder facility via its satellite, while KIT digital is the system integrator, solution architect and managed services partner of this Direct To Network (DTN) cable service.

Recently, NSTPL signed a multi-year, multi-transponder agreement for C-band capacity on Intelsat 902 at 62 degree East.

KIT digital will supply an E2E solution for a multiplex service, distributing over 500 channels to cable operators across India.

KIT digital will also provide 24/7 managed services to monitor and maintain all aspects of the HITS platform.

JAIN TV group ropes in Motorola, Intelsat, KIT digital to launch HITS services in India

 

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Initially they are start with 200 SD + HD channels.end of 2014 their plan is 500 + SD ,HD,3D channels and VOD ,broadband services.

 

[Xen]

Seems to be a managed and phased plan by Jain Tv group. But to reiterate they are launching as HITS and not MSO .

 

[Xen]

In the first phase, JainHits aims to offer 200 standard definition and high definition service; HBB TV (Interactive TV) and broadband. In the second phase, it will be scaled to offer 500 channels including 30 HD channels and value added services for e-commerce, education, healthcare, financial services, gaming, and on-demand content etc. Within one year of launch, the platform will evolve into a multi-screen service.

JainHits aims to facilitate 60,000 cable operators and 120 million subscribers three million terabits of downloads, e-education services for 300,000 villages, e-health for 300 million rural Indians, and 60 million daily electronic transactions.

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