Bharti Airtel to venture into Set Top Box manufacturing in India: Report

Follow Us

Sunil Bharti led Bharti Enterprises may venture into manufacturing of Set Top boxes, sources reveal Indiatoday. The company may soon enter into partnership with a yet-to-be revealed electronic manufacturer in the country to make Set Top Boxes under its commitment to support Prime Minister’s Make in India vision. The manufacturing unit may be based in Pune. However, Bharti Enterprises spokesperson refused to provide any confirmation on the same.

dth-india




The move to make Set Top Boxes is aimed at the process of cable digitization, which is undergoing in the phased manner. Under the Cable digitization process, the Government has mandated that the provision for cable TV transmission should be provided through digital addressable systems. This will allow the user to access more number of channels compared to the 60-70 channels provided through analogue cable transmission.

The implementation of cable digitization is done through four phases. The Phase 3 is nearing its completion by the end of this year. Phase four will be completed by next year.

Now foreign Set Top Box manufacturers rule the market with around 95 percent of share. Out of the 55 million Set Top Boxes deployed all over the country as of December 2012, only 10 million were provided by the domestic manufacturers. The demand for Set Top Boxes is one rise, which is estimated around 75 million units by 2016-17.

Reported By

Reporter

An astute writer with a track record in writing and publishing content for various industries, Ria brings on board her wealth of experience in journalism and love for technology to TelecomTalk. When not writing or reading, she spends a copious amount of time daydreaming and finding obscure Japanese folklore on the internet.

Recent Comments

Rupesh :

Only 3500? These 5 states combined have 51744 towers. Means less than 5% per state. BSNL will never get level…

BSNL Installs 3,500 4G Towers Across 5 North Indian States:…

Faraz :

"BSNL plans to quickly upgrade 4G services to 5G by June 2024 " Is this a typo or a quote…

BSNL Installs 3,500 4G Towers Across 5 North Indian States:…

Faraz :

Population growth and growth of mobile users are more than that. And I was wondering Vi started gaining 4G customers…

Vodafone Idea Only Added 4 Million 4G Users in Four…

Girish Gowda :

Oh hell no. Airtel 4G is literally unusable aside from a few posh locations in the city. My mother has…

Spectrum Auction 2024: DoT Excludes 700 MHz Frequency Band, Get…

TheAndroidFreak :

They haven't deployed band 1 10Mhz at most of the places. Don't expect much of the speeds you mentioned. 3G…

Spectrum Auction 2024: DoT Excludes 700 MHz Frequency Band, Get…

Load More
Subscribe
Notify of
1 Comment
newest
oldest most voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments