May 28, 2012 – The Government has shelved its plans for a standardised television set-top box, which was slated for launch sometime this year.
The project, dubbed Next-Generation Interactive Multimedia, Applications and Services (Nims), was started in 2009 jointly by the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) and the Media Development Authority (MDA).
IDA requested for proposals from potential set-top box makers last May. But it has decided not to award a contract to any of the three bidders – SingNet, StarHub and M1 – as none of the bids were ‘likely to achieve the desired outcomes’, said the regulator.
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