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All India Radio (AIR), the public broadcaster, started trial DAB broadcasts in New Delhi in late 1997, but was unable to progress to permanent broadcasts due to regulatory issues. The latest government plan (the Eleventh Plan) makes provision for the commercial sector to evaluate DMB for mobile TV broadcasting.
However, the challenge for India is to ensure that any new digital technologies have receiver prices at a realistic level for the price-sensitive Indian consumer. AIR has previously held talks with UK-based manufacturers of DAB sets, with a view to arranging a tie-up with radio manufacturers in India for making DAB-enabled sets in the country. This type of deal should ensure that sets manufactured in India would cost much less than imported ones.