The government today said that necessary provisions have been incorporated in the Cable Television Networks (Amendment) Rules, 2012 to take care of the quality of Set Top Boxes, STBs and the redressal of grievances of the cable TV subscribers. According to an official release, as per these Rules, the STBs to be supplied by the Multi System Operators, must conform to the quality standards specified by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, TRAI. The Multi System operators are also required to devise a mechanism for grievance redressal, as specified by the TRAI and inform the details thereof to the subscribers.

The Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Amendment Act, 2011 has made it mandatory for switch-over of the existing analogue Cable TV networks to Digital Addressable System by December 2014, in a phased manner. In respect of four metros of Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai, the digital switch-over is to be completed by the 30th of next month. Content