Many city dwellers likely to miss watching satellite TV after Aug 31

Many city dwellers are likely to miss watching satellite television channels during the upcoming Eid-ul-Fitr as Dhaka Electric Supply Company Ltd has taken steps to remove the risky overhead cables from Abdullahpur to Kuril Biswa Road by August 31.

Cable operators said though DESCO served a notice for the removal of overhead cables from the area by August 31, it was impossible to relocate the cables within such a short time.

Former president of the Cable Operators’ Association of Bangladesh Anwar Parvez told the news agency that there was no adequate infrastructural facility to take the cable lines underground.

If the government takes steps to remove the overhead cables, a huge number of city dwellers will not be able to watch satellite TV channels after August 31 as they would not be able to relocate the cables within the stipulated time, he said.

Parvez said although DESCO had signed an agreement with a private organisation, Fiber@Home, for taking overhead cables underground, it has no capability to take the hanging cables underground properly.

‘We will never hand over our old business to an unknown private company,’ he said.

A senior DESCO official said that they would take decision in this regard today after a meeting with the power ministry.

Earlier, DESCO had asked the cable operators to remove the risky hanging cables from Abdullahpur to Kuril Biswa Road by August 31.

Recently, the government has decided to set up underground cable network system by removing the hanging cables from the electric poles for increasing beauty of the city.

As per the government directive, the DESCO served a notice to the cable operators to remove the risky hanging cables by August 31.