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Q. |
What is HITS Technology? |
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HITS Stands for
HEAD END IN THE SKY (HITS)
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HITS is the latest;
most cost effective mode of providing digital cable TV
signals, across the whole country, in the most cost
effective way
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It is the only
technology that allows a LCO become a MSO and manage his
subscribers and his network operations independently
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All signals are
received from satellites directly, hence no loss of
signal
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High quality of
Video and sound
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WWIL provides all
technical support for the LCO to install a HITS Digital
Head End
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WWIL also offers a
wide choice of packages (Starting from Rs 60+ Taxes) for
your customers to choose from
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Customer support is
managed by Subscriber Management System (SMS) |
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Q. |
What are the requirements for a
prospective HITS LCO? |
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The LCO should have
a postal registration with the local postal office for
providing cable TV in the area he wants to operate
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The LCO enters into
an agreement to provide HITS with WWIL
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WWIL helps and
guides the LCO all along. The hardware installation,
Channel Packages and customer care is supported by WWIL |
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Q. |
What is the Hardware required to Launch
HITS? |
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A. |
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At LCO Premises
– To receive the digital signal from satellite directly
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One Complete
Receiving Unit
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This consists of
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Two C Band
Professional Dish Antennas (Your existing DISH ANTENNAS
can be utilized, if technically compatible)
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One KU Band Dish
Antenna 120 CMS
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A Set of 13
Trans-modulators
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Rack (no need if
you already have 15 rack Space
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UPS (No need if you
have 1.5 KVA Offline capacity left)
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At Customer
Premise – To decode the digital signal
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Digital Set Top Box
(STB) |
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Q. |
What is the Cost of this Hardware? |
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Complete HITS
Receiving Unit
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Rs 3.5 Lacs
(Approx) including installation and commissioning of the
unit
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Set Top Box (STB)
– There are two business models available for STBs
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Rental
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Activation Charges:
Rs 499 + Taxes
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13th to
72nd Month: Rs 30 + Tax
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Outright
Purchase
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Rs 2000/- |
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Q. |
Can the LCO utilize his existing cable
network in HITS? |
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A. |
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Yes. The existing
coax cable and amplifiers are utilized in this
technology
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The LCO can also
utilize his existing Dish Antennas (if technically
compatible); UPS and Earthing |
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Q. |
Can a LCO insert video channels
locally? |
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Yes. The LCO can
insert channels locally on digital mode
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Additional Hardware
is required to do so. This hardware is required to be
purchased additionally by the LCO |
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Q. |
Can the LCO continue giving Analogue
feed also along with the Digital HITS Feed on the same
network? |
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A. |
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Yes |
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Q. |
What are the Frequencies used for HITS
Digital feed? |
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LCO can use any
frequencies between 300 to 860 MHz |
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Q. |
What are the bands used for HITS? |
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A. |
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Both C and KU bands
are used in HITS Signal Transmission |
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Q. |
What is the HITS Architecture? |
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Q. |
How is HITS
service better than DTH; Analogue and other Digital
Cable Services? |
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A. |
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Analog Cable |
Digital Cable |
DTH |
HITS |
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Low Spectrum <106
Channels |
High Spectrum high
carrying cost |
Low spectrum high
carrying cost |
High
Spectrum with lowest possible carrying cost.
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Low Quality, Noise,
Grainy Pictures |
Better Quality but
prone to interferences because of analog channel
mixing. |
Better quality but
does not work in bad weather. |
Best Quality with no
interference, and no effect of bad weather.
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Prone to Cable Cuts
and competition. |
Prone to Cable Cuts
and competition. |
Prone to long service
hours and downtime in case of little disturbance of
satellite dish, and product technical faults.
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Instant localized
support. No dish antenna in every home, localized
STB product backup. |
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No-Uniform pricing and
unprofessional work practice. |
No-Uniform pricing and
service as it is CITY centric not area / LCO centric
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High Pricing with
comparatively lesser offering, you pay but you do
not own the equipments. |
Uniform PAN INDIA
pricing and support centric to particular society or
townships. |
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Local Channel
Insertion not possible because of lesser bandwidth
availability. |
Possible but with
heavy cost |
Not possible at all.
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Possible and specific
to only extra product charges no carriage fee.
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Q. |
Are Value Add Services (like VOD; Games; etc) possible
on HITS? |
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YES |
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Q. |
What is the billing process? |
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This is a Pre-Paid
Mode of billing
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Service Provider
raises invoice on LCOs on the package basic price
(without any taxes, but including service tax @ 10.3% on
the basis price)
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The LCO raises
invoice on his customers including all taxes (Service
Tax; Entertainment Tax; etc) and his margin
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LCO Collects all
payments from his subscribers |
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