Conax develops television encryption,

conditional access Conditional access (CA) is a term commonly used in relation to software and to digital television systems. Conditional access is an evaluation to ensure the person who is seeking access to content is authorized to access the content. Access is man ...

and content security for

digital television Digital television (DTV) is the transmission of television signals using Digital signal, digital encoding, in contrast to the earlier analog television technology which used analog signals. At the time of its development it was considered an ...

. Conax provide CAS technology to

pay TV Pay television, also known as subscription television, premium television or, when referring to an individual service, a premium channel, refers to subscription-based television services, usually provided by multichannel television providers, b ...

operators in 85 countries. The company has offices in Norway (headquarters), Russia, Germany, Brazil, the United States, Canada, Mexico, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, China, Singapore, and India, with a 24/7 Global Support Center in India. Conax stems from

Telenor Telenor ASA ( or ) is a Norwegian majority state-owned multinational telecommunications company headquartered at Fornebu in Bærum, close to Oslo. It is one of the world's largest mobile telecommunications companies with operations worldwi ...

Research Labs in the 1980s. It was incorporated as a separate company ''Conax AS'' in 1994. In March 2014, the company was sold by Telenor Group to Swiss-based Kudelski Group for NOK 1.5 billion. Conax CAS employs several versions, namely Conax CAS 3, Conax CAS 5, Conax CAS 7, Conax CAS 7.5 and Conax Contego. Those versions are shared amongst two types of CAM: Chipset Pairing and Generic/Non-Chipset Pairing in which compatible TV Smart Cards may not support one or the other. The company also provide DRM-solution for streaming services based on Microsoft

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and Google

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. A few pay TV operators using Conax conditional access are (alphabetic ordre) : *4TV Myanmar *AKTA Telecom Romania * Allente (Norway) (previously Viasat/ Canal Digital Satellite) * Antik SAT (Slovakia) *Cignal Philippines * Polsat Box, Platforma Canal+ and

Orange Polska Orange Polska SA (formerly Telekomunikacja Polska) is a Polish telecommunications provider established in December 1991. It is a public company traded on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, with a controlling stake owned by Orange S.A., the latter control ...

(Poland) * DigitAlb (Albania) *Digicable India * Dish TV (India) *DMAX - germany * Focus Sat (operated by

UPC Romania UPC Romania was a telecommunications company in Romania, which provided cable television, broadband internet and fixed telephony to approximately 1 million customers. On July 31, 2019, Vodafone acquired the company and it was merged into Vodafo ...

, later M7 Group) *HOMESAT (Lebanon) *Joyne Netherlands * JSTV (Europe) * K-Vision (Indonesia) *Malivision (Mali) *Mindig TV Hungary *

RiksTV RiksTV is the distributor of pay television in the Norwegian digital terrestrial television network. Except for NRK1, NRK2, NRK3/ NRK Super and the NRK radio channels, all broadcasts in the Norwegian DTT network are encrypted. The channels t ...

(Norway) *SBB (Serbia) *SitiCable India *StarTimes Media (SSA) *

(Norway and Sweden) *TeleRed (Argentina) *TVR Romania *Turksat KabloTV Conax is also used by MNC Media's free to air channels (

RCTI RCTI (abbreviated from ''Rajawali Citra Televisi Indonesia'') is an Indonesian free-to-air television broadcaster. It is best known for its soap operas, celebrity bulletins, news, and sports programmes. It was first launched in 1989, origi ...

, MNCTV and GTV along with

iNews iNews, short for ''Indonesia News'', formerly named Sun TV and Sindo TV, is an Indonesian free-to-air Free-to-air (FTA) services are television (TV) and radio services broadcast in unencrypted form, allowing any person with the approp ...

during sport programmes) and K-Vision to prevent any

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or unauthorized retransmission by a Third-parties since 2019.

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