In an age when cricket’s success is tied to TV audience, "primitive methods are still used to lay broadcast equipment, mainly cables, that relay matches into living rooms," according to Khurram Habib of the HINDUSTAN TIMES. Currently, "the broadcaster hires an equipment company which in turn hires a shipment company to supply cables and related equipment to venues." There have been suggestions "to upgrade the methods used." A broadcasting official said, "When the IPL was held in Dubai (2014), we just had to plug in our cameras and equipment as the wiring/cabling was all in-built. Venues across the world have that facility these days. Unfortunately, even the new stadia in India lack this facility. As a result we have kits that have to be transported on trucks and planes and labor needs to be employed to rig and de-rig it. When they build a stadium here, they don’t think from the point of view of these things." A proposal to do this was made at the Feroz Shah Kotla a few years ago by the Delhi association. The cost then was estimated to be about Rs 50 lakh. The "proposal, however, was dismissed." Indian Premier League COO Ratnakar Shetty said, "It involves huge capital expenditure but we are weighing our options. We don’t want to be left in a situation where we invest and it becomes obsolete. But we have been discussing optic fiber cables" (HINDUSTAN TIMES, 5/4).