NDS eyes UK cable encryption contract

摘要

NDS, the News Corporation-backed technology company, believes that it has a "good chance" of winning the contract to provide encryption for UK cable operators if their networks are upgraded. The company has been working with both NTL and Telewest to help eradicate pay-television piracy on cable, as first reported by New Media Markets (NMM July 23, 2004). BSkyB has been putting pressure on the cable operators to improve security and has drafted in NDS, which provides conditional access to the Sky Digital platform, to help. Abe Peled, president and chief executive of NDS, said that inroads had been made in targeting the pirates.