DEN Networks Limited is an Indian
cable television
Cable television is a system of delivering television programming to consumers via radio frequency (RF) signals transmitted through coaxial cables, or in more recent systems, light pulses through fibre-optic cables. This contrasts with bro ...
and
broadband
In telecommunications, broadband or high speed is the wide-bandwidth (signal processing), bandwidth data transmission that exploits signals at a wide spread of frequencies or several different simultaneous frequencies, and is used in fast Inter ...
service provider company in India. It is owned by Sameer Manchanda and was acquired by
Reliance Industries
Reliance Industries Limited is an Indian multinational conglomerate headquartered in Mumbai. Its businesses include energy, petrochemicals, natural gas, retail, entertainment, telecommunications, mass media, and textiles. Reliance is the ...
in 2018 along with
Hathway
Hathway Cable & Datacom Ltd, formerly BITV Cable Networks, is an Indian cable television and broadband service provider based in Mumbai. It was the first company to provide Internet using the CATV network in India, and the first cable operat ...
. In 2003, it stood as one of the three major cable distributors in India alongside Hathway and InCablenet.
On 17 October 2018, Reliance Industries announced that it had acquired a 66% stake in DEN for . At the time of the acquisition, DEN had 106,000 broadband subscribers. The acquisition received approval from the
Competition Commission of India
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) is the chief national competition regulator in India. It is a statutory body within the Ministry of Corporate Affairs and is responsible for enforcing the Competition Act, 2002 to promote competition a ...
in January 2019. Reliance acquired an additional 12.05% stake in DEN in March 2019 taking its total stake in the company to 78.62%.
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