Fortnight old CAS confronts indecisive customers

New Delhi, Jan 17: A fortnight after its introduction in Mumbai, Delhi and Kolkata, the Conditional Access System(CAS) is still not having a smooth sailing.

In the CAS regime, the transmission signals are encrypted and viewers need a device-- the Set-Top Box(STB)-- to receive and decrypt the signal.

Teams of senior officials of telecom regulator TRAI sent to the three metros to study the situation in the areas where the system was in place have found that it was facing problems on three fronts, a senior official told UNI