Sunday, October 23, 2005

Cable Problems in Pune

Hathway cable service in the Erandawane region has been most unsatisfactory to say the least in recent times. Firstly, only 40 channels can be decently viewed. The other 30 that are available the signal is extremely weak. What's more is that important channels such as ESPN, BBC, DD Sports (at times STAR SPORTS) figure in the later group of channels. While pretty ordinary channels like the recent sensationalistic news channels, hungama etc. that hardly anyone would care a damn about are shown in the first category. Another issue is that Zee Sports which telecasted the Challenger series last week is not shown at all - it was shown in the adjoining Rajendranagar area - while several other Z channels ranging from Z Gujrati to Z Punjabi are shown.

It must be noted that whenever there is a cricket match on, one of the sports channels is swapped from the later group so it clearly proves that there is no technical reason as to why they should not be able to show all good channels at all times. Even assuming there is, it is understood that we are paying to see all available channels PROPERLY. This is really disturbing and someone needs to voice their concerns over this.

3 comments:

Atul said...

Yeah.. Hathway and ICC are probably the most notorious when it comes to cricket telecasts (ICC - the cable people.. not the guys sitting in Dubai :P). Plus they charge exorbitant rates! Switch to Team Cable, mate.

Gaurav said...

what is team cable ? anyway i dont think we have the right to choose our cablewala - they have pretty much divided the city amongst themselves

Anonymous said...

Don't care about cable... Change your orkut photo!! This is outrageous!!!