...satellite capacity for a new digital cable television distribution platform for India. NSTPL’s planned ‘Headend in the Sky’, or HITS platform, supports India’s national goal of completing the transition to digital broadcast television signals by 2014. NSTPL has signed a multi-year, multi-transponder agreement for C-band capacity on Intelsat 902 at 62 degrees East. The company will use the capacity to create a white label, turnkey channel package that can be received and distributed by multiple system and local cable operators throughout the region.

