new delhi in a first for a civic body the new delhi municipal council will provide highdefinition cable television services to residents of lutyens delhi from midfebruary a move that will help it in its smart city bidndmc will provide the service in partnership with mahanagar telephone nigam limited and telecom company oneott intertainment the transmission will be through the underground optic fibre networkmtnl along with the municipal body is already providing highspeed internet and voice facility through the fibretothehome technology in select ndmc areas so the television channels can now be accessed alongside netflix prime youtube and other netbased media services the users will have the freedom to watch shows on tv screens mobile computer or laptop provided they take the mtnlndmc internet connection mtnl cmd pravin kumar purwar said the cost would be reasonable we cant offer rates below those decided by the telecom authority of india trai for implementation from february 1 but we assure users they will be marginally over that he said cp to get the first taste of hd cable tv internetalong with ftth the technology being employed is called headendinthesky hits being a master facility for receiving television signals for processing and distribution over a cable tv system sunil kumar director hreb mtnl explained in simple words the content provider collects the differing frequencies of all satellite channels at one station via dish antennae it then transmits them back to its own satellite collectively from here the signal is sent to local service providers via antennas and then to homes through underground optic fibrepurwar said that the combination of hits and ftth enable provision of high quality and lowcost television service that would not be hampered by sun or rain outage kumar also revealed that customers had the flexibility of viewing programmes at any point because they can be stored for seven days on the serverndmc had joined hand with mtnl 2017 to offer internet connectivity through wifi service in public places and ftth services to certain central delhi residential areas we have already completed the project for providing internet and telephone services through ftth and registered 370 users as yet said naresh kumar chairman ndmc after seeing the success of that project we decided to utilise the same facility for providing cable tv services toohaving taken this decision the civic body signed an mou with mtnl and nxt digital the leading service provider for hits technology in india by february 15 we will start publicising the service and holding camps to invite applications from subscribers for the commercial connections said kumaron a pilot basis services will be initially offered in connaught place and its neighbourhood kumar pleased at being the first municipal body to offer cable tv through hits said that the union ministry of information and broadcasting too has been stressing on employing this technology to change digital broadcasting in india