Digicable Network India Pvt Ltd is a cable television company based in
Mumbai
Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the second- ...
, India, that also provides telephone, data, and internet services. The company provides services in 46 cities and 14 states across India and, as of June 2012, had approximately 8.7 million subscribers.
[Four MSOs put in bids to merge with DigiCable]
by Sohini Mitter & Baiju Kalesh, financialexpress.com, 20 June 2012
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In July 2010 Reliance Communications
Reliance Communications Limited (RCOM) was an Indian mobile network provider headquartered in Navi Mumbai that offered voice and 2G and 3G and 4G data services.
In February 2019, the company filed for bankruptcy as it was unable to sell asse ...
announced it agreed to acquire Digicable and would rename it Reliance DigiCom. However, a year later, the deal was still under review.
In 2012 the company became a takeover target after new rules introduced by the Indian government required cable firms to convert to digital television
Digital television (DTV) is the transmission of television signals using digital encoding, in contrast to the earlier analog television technology which used analog signals. At the time of its development it was considered an innovative advanc ...
technology, which analysts thought would lead to consolidation in the cable television industry.[
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Television networks in India
2007 establishments in Maharashtra
Mass media companies based in Mumbai
Television channels and stations established in 2007
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