Team Herald
PANJIM: GOACAN has approached the District Collectors expressing concern over incomplete implementation of the Digital Addressable System in view of the deadline for Digitisation of Cable TV on December 31, 2016.
GOACAN Coordinator Roland Martins raised apprehensions that consumers may be unable to watch their favourite channels in 2017 due to the system’s incomplete implementation.
The Task Force meeting on implementation of DAS in Cable TV Network in Phase III & IV was held on November 29 and the Cut-Off date for Phase IV was finalised as December 31 with no extension being granted.
In its letters to the District Collectors, GOACAN pointed out that large numbers of consumers have not yet got proper knowledge of the Consumer Application Form and have paid for Set Top Boxes. Moreover, consumers have not been provided bills and receipts for the same. In many cases Set Top Boxes which have been provided to the consumers at Rs1500 are not HD (High Definition) compliant and would not be usable if channels become HD by March 2017 resulting in them having to spend another Rs 2500 to get a HD Compliant Set Top Boxes, he said.
