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Andrew Bonwick
Vice President of Product Development at Relm Insurance
Madhav Sheth
CEO of Ai+ Smartphone
Stephen Rose
CEO Render Networks
Out of the many issues that have been circling in the DTH industry, something that has not been heard of since the last few weeks is DTH interoperability. While other major issues in the DTH industry have been making the headlines, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has not forgotten about the issue of DTH Set-Top Box interoperability and has been working on that front behind the scenes. Now, Trai has issued a new release on the matter which brings good news for the subscribers denoting progress on this front. In this new update, Trai has said that it has floated a new consultation paper on interoperable Set-Top Box for digital TV broadcasting services. This new consultation paper will seek to invite comments from the industry stakeholders about what the best technical implementation could be for accomplishing interoperability of Set-Top Boxes in the DTH industry. It is worth noting that DTH interoperability will allow the subscribers of one DTH operator, using a specific Set-Top Box with another DTH operator’s connection. Currently, this is not possible in the DTH industry.
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Testing for Interoperability Successfully Completed in Lab Conditions
Following the timeline which Trai has traced on the matter of Set-Top Box interoperability, we get to know that back in 2016, the sector regulator had floated a pre-consultation in this matter during April 2016 Thereafter, a consultation note on solution architecture developed by C-DoT for the technical interoperable Set-Top Box was issued during August 2017. Now, as per the latest release from Trai, the smart card based solution has been successfully tested in lab conditions, “using separate instances of CAS developed by C-DoT. However, the field testing with third-party CAS solution is still to be conducted with different industry stakeholders.” Further, adding to this, the regulator said that “Trai has been taking various measures to achieve the Set-Top box interoperability including the stakeholders’ meetings/ discussions. The Authority also engaged with various technology companies in the broadcasting technology space for information exchange.”
