The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) has once again extended the date for MSO registration on a government website to facilitate information upload regarding installation of monitoring devices on networks.

“All the MSOs are hereby informed that the last date for registration on italindiamib.com has been extended up to 16/12/2022,” an advisory from the Ministry said Friday, pointing out some MSOs have still not got themselves registered and furnished the requested information.

The government had directed that MSOs upload the required details on www.digitalindiamib.com, apart from sharing them with officials from BECIL, a unit of MIB.

Mid-November the MIB had issued a warning to those MSOs and LCOs who had not heeded an earlier advisory to install monitoring devices at their headends and failed to submit relevant data.

The government had created a website for this purpose so the compliance reports and related data could be uploaded by the MSOs and cable ops after getting the devices installed.

The MSOs were directed to furnish to relevant authorities information regarding headend locations, conditional access system, and details of transport stream/frequency, RF feed, platform services, CATV signal distribution areas and STB seeding.

Earlier in May, MIB had said that in order to monitor output feed of cable operators, the distributors would need to install a government-mandated monitoring device at their headends.

This system of monitoring had been demanded by broadcasters so as to check some shortcomings in the distribution ecosystem, including under-reporting of subscribers and signal piracy.