Install set-top boxes in Dhaka, Ctg by March 31: Hasan Mahmud

Information and Broadcasting Minister Hasan Mahmud today asked cable TV subscribers to install set-top boxes with TVs in Dhaka and Chattogram by March 31 and other cities of the country by May 30.


"If TV subscribers want to watch satellite television in Dhaka and Chittagong, they will have to install the set-top boxes by March 31," the minister said this while talking to reporters at the Secretariat this afternoon.


The decision came following a meeting of Association of Television Channel Owners (Atco) with the minister today.


The information minister further said, "A proposal came to formulate policy for cable operators. We also think that there is a need to formulate a policy. It will be done by the ministry. But, we need time to do that."