MUMBAI, India -- NDS, the leading provider of technology solutions for digital payTV, today announced that the company is increasing its presence in India with the opening of a dedicated sales and support operation in Mumbai.

Commenting in Mumbai, Dr. Abe Peled, Chairman and CEO of NDS Group plc said, “NDS has had a research and development facility in Bangalore for over five years, which has grown to nearly 600 employees. NDS Bangalore is pivotal in our ability to roll out state-of-the-art technologies, such as advanced middleware solutions, digital video recorders (DVR) and interactive TV applications, to some of the world’s largest broadcasters. The opening of the NDS Mumbai office, is in recognition that the Indian market itself is ready for the widescale deployment of digital pay-TV.”

NDS end-to-end systems currently support the Tata Sky direct to home (DTH) service and Hathway Cable and Datacom digital cable TV operations.

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