Who will broadcast Indian Cricket?

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The bidding war for media rights of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)'s matches to be played in India is heating up, with more contenders joining the race. The rights include television, internet and mobile coverage for six years, starting July 2012.
According to BCCI officials, Multi-Screen Media (MSM), which telecasts the Indian Premier League on MAX, has bought the invitation to tender. The network also plans to a launch a new sports channel, Six, this year.
Apart from MSM, ESPN-STAR Sports (ESS), Bennett, Coleman & Co Ltd (BCCL)-led consortium and Reliance-Network18 have picked up tender forms.
An ESS spokesperson said they would not comment on these matters, while BCCL chief executive Ravi Dhariwal said it was an internal matter.
Subhash Chandra's Zee group, which owns sports channels under the TEN umbrella, is believed to be interested in the rights, but is waiting for BCCI to withdraw its case against it.
The bids will have to be given on April 2 in Chennai. "The marketing committee will meet in Chennai to receive and open the bids next Monday," said a BCCI official.

After BCCI has terminated Broadcast deal with Nimbus, BCCI has invited fresh tenders. ESPN-STAR looking to gain the rights which it has been missing for long period. Sony-MSM which already hold BCCI backed IPL rights also looking to grab the rights to boost its newly planned Sports channel SIX. Zee group has case pending against BCCI, so it has restrained itself from bidding currently, but it would also be happy to get rights. Apart from this three, surprising to see BCCL (owners on Times group channels - Times Now, ET Now, Movies Now, Zoom) and Reliance-Network18 (who recently acquired ETV channels). April 2 is the date to watch out for all the happening in biggest broadcast deal in Cricket.

Den Digicable Merger Plans

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Is further consolidation coming to Indian cable TV land? Last year, Zee and Star merged their distribution aggregation firms - Zee Turner and Star Den - to form Mediapro. Last week, News Corp announced that it was exiting from leading Indian cable TV MSO Hathway Cable, paving the way for private equity firm Providence to enter.
Now, the buzz is gaining ground that a deal between Digicable and Den Networks is imminent. Sources indicate that talks between the two are at an advanced stage.
"Talks are on for a share-swap deal. Details of the share swap ratio are being worked out," a source familiar with the development said.
Apparently, private equity firm Ashmore, which controls Digicable, is eager that a deal does indeed take place.

"We are in talks. But nothing has happened so far," Digicable MD and CEO JS Kohli said.
Den founder-promoter Sameer Manchanda was not available for comment till the filing of this report.
The consolidation is coming in the wake of the government's mandate to the cable TV industry to switch over nationally from analogue mode to digital by December 2014, beginning with the four metros over the next three months.
The merger, if it does go through, will result in a behemoth with 17 million subscribers nationally.
A deal between the Den and Digicable, however, will require some serious hammering out, indicate observers.
For starters, is the red ink that stains Digicable's finances. Den will have to absorb those. Then there is the huge investment that is needed to upgrade headends and homes to digital.
"The merged entity will have a huge footprint, but the challenge for Den will be to raise capital to support digitisation of this expanded network," said a media analyst.

What I had read earlier that Anil Ambani has stake in Digicable, while Big brother Mukesh has stake in DEN.

Ambani brothers planning some big game in TV distribution in India

Does India have 4G Broadband? This guys thinks Yes!

Just seen advertisement pasted on my building wall about Broadband connection by 4G!!!
Few days back I read news that Indian govt is allocating 4G spectrum and soon going to sale this spectrum by holding auction. But this guys have already got 4G.

But look at their speed - 512 Kbps to 2 Mbps. Its speed less than that offered by 3G. This guys needs some serious education on Wireless technologies.