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CASBAA Leads Raids on Renegade Cable Operators |
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HONG KONG, Sept. 29, 2005/Satnews Daily/ — The Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) has launched an intensive enforcement campaign against Philippines pirate pay-TV pirate operators, starting with police raids on cable companies in Mindanao on September 21, and in Metro Manila on September 23 and 26.
“This is the first of a series of high-impact actions the industry is taking to highlight the seriousness of cable signal theft in the Philippines, especially for legitimate, law-abiding Filipino cable and satellite TV operators,” said CASBAA CEO, Simon Twiston Davies.
CASBAA is an industry-based advocacy group that promotes pay-TV services via cable, satellite, broadband and wireless video networks across the Asia-Pacific.
The recent CASBAA-instigated raids on renegade cable operators were undertaken in co-operation with the National Bureau of Investigation of the Philippines (NBI).
CASBAA said it had been conducting surveillance of the target companies for several months taking note of the re-transmission of pay-TV programming which had not been authorized by the channel providers or their legitimate distributors in the Philippines.
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