Set Top Box

TRAI also recommended the mandatory provisioning of a USB port-based common interface for all digital television sets in India.

It also said there is no need to mandate physical verification at regular intervals as it will incur a huge cost to the DTH operators and inconvenience to the consumers

I&B Ministry has proposed installing a chip in new television set-top boxes which will provide data about channels watched and for how long

Govt is likely to recover the cost of these set-top boxes from the beneficiaries later

Currently, STB of a particular operator cannot be used by a consumer to receive signals of another operator