NBTC again bars obsolete set-top boxes
31/07/2012 – Imports of obsolete cable and satellite set-top boxes will again be banned to comply with the must-carry rule, warns the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC).Some set-top boxes cannot decode the digital signal needed for pool programming under the must-carry rule, which took effect last week.
“The ban is intended to prevent future blackouts,” said Col Natee Sukonrat, the NBTC’s broadcasting chairman.
He admitted about 800,000 boxes or 5-10% of the households with cable in the country are blacked out from the Olympics.
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