The
Ministry has been steadily working towards digitization of analogue cable
network in the country since 2012 which aims to modernize the service as well
as regulate it.
The legal provision has it that the cable
networks in Kathmandu, Lalitpur, Lekhnath
Pokhara Metropolitan
City , Biratnagar and Birgunj Sub-metropolitan
Cities must go digital by
April 28.
The Ministry accordingly has directed the
cable operators in these places to distribute digital signals to the customers.
The Ministry aims to completely replace
the current analogue cable network with a digital system known as digitization
by 2017 as the UN's International telecommunication Union (ITU) has set 2017 as
the deadline for digitization of cable network in all countries across the
world.
The government has stopped issuing license
to those cable operators operating through analogue system since December 7,
2014.
The Ministry has also urged the signal
distributors to not distribute cable signal to the operators operating in
analogue system. The cable network subscribers have been told to ask their
respective cable network operators whether their cable channels have been
digitized or not.
An estimate shows that there are more than six million cable
network subscribers but only 2.5 million are paying the subscription fees.
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