Hathway

For the surname, see Hathway (surname).

Hathway
Company typePublic
NSE: HATHWAY BSE: 533162
IndustryTelecommunications
Founder
  • Pheroza Billimoria
  • Roopesh Rao
Headquarters
Mumbai, Maharashtra
,
India
Area served
India
Products
OwnerReliance Industries (71.95%)[1]
Websitewww.hathway.com Edit this at Wikidata

Hathway Cable & Datacom Ltd, formerly BITV Cable Networks, is an Indian cable television and broadband service provider based in Mumbai.[2][3] It was the first company to provide Internet using the CATV network in India, and the first cable operator to launch a digital platform in 2006.[4] Hathway Broadband Internet was the first cable ISP in India. Business India Television (BITV) Cable Networks Pvt Ltd was acquired by Hathway in 1999. As of 2007, the company had a 51% stake in Bhupendran Bhaskar Multinet and a 50% stake in Gujarat Telelinks Pvt Ltd (GTPL).[5][6] In 2011, Hathway GTPL entered Assam with an MoM with V&S Cable Pvt Ltd, and started operations in West Bengal as they acquired KCBPL (Kolkata Cable & Broadband Pariseva Ltd) to create a subsidiary, GTPLKCBPL, responsible for providing services in West Bengal.[7]

  1. ^ "How RIL's acquisition of Hathway Cable, DEN Networks hurts rivals". Business Today. 26 October 2018. Retrieved 1 July 2024.
  2. ^ "Hathway Cable & Datacom Ltd Annual Report 2009-2010" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 October 2011. Retrieved 4 June 2011.
  3. ^ "Hathway Cable Q2 Results: Net profit falls 33.7% to ₹20 cr, revenue up 2% YoY". Mint. 17 October 2023. Archived from the original on 19 October 2023. Retrieved 23 April 2024.
  4. ^ Major, Rose (12 March 2009). "Hathway offers India's first cable PVR". Rapid TV News. Archived from the original on 18 October 2010.
  5. ^ "Home | GTPL". www.gtpl.net. Archived from the original on 1 November 2020. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  6. ^ "GTPL about".
  7. ^ https://www.goodreturns.in/company/gtpl-hathway/history.html Archived 6 April 2019 at the Wayback Machine History of GTPL Hathway