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January 13th, 2020 3:39 PM 1 COMMENTS

Trai Says New DTH Rules Are Good For Both Consumers and Broadcasters

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has released new amendments to the National Tariff Order which went into effect last year in February. The National Tariff Order (NTO) or the Trai Tariff Regime brought some reeling changes into the industry, made the pricing of channels and DTH connections fairer and gave more choices to the consumers as well. However, it also increased the prices of the DTH and cable... Read More

January 13th, 2020 6:30 AM 5 COMMENTS

Trai Rule Changes in DTH Will Allow You to Watch More FTA Channels Without Additional Cost

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) announced new changes for the DTH industry last year and with these changes, it divided channels into two types which included FTA (Free-to-Air) channels and Pay channels. The difference between these two types of channels was exactly what the name said. However, even the FTA channels were not entirely free. The subscribers still had to pay the Network Capacity Fee (NCF) which is... Read More

January 11th, 2020 12:22 PM 24 COMMENTS

Trai Keeps 6 Paise IUC Regime for Another Year: What Does it Mean for Reliance Jio Subscribers

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) is retaining the six paise per minute Interconnect Usage Charges (IUC) for another year. To recall, Trai was supposed to implement zero-IUC regime on January 1, 2020, according to its announcement made back in 2017. However, incumbents Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea had approached Trai to postpone the zero-IUC regime by at least three years. Zero-IUC regime would benefit Reliance Jio the most... Read More

January 10th, 2020 7:31 PM 1 COMMENTS

New Trai DTH Rule Changes Heavily Opposed by Broadcasters Like Star India, Zee and More

The new Trai tariff regime changes are all the news that are making the headlines in the DTH industry. These new rules change some of the fundamental ways in which the channels were being priced. These new rules also bring some caps on the discounts which were being offered to the consumers on the channel packs. Also, the new amendments change the way multi TV serviced being priced for the... Read More

January 9th, 2020 7:45 PM 5 COMMENTS

Trai Launches New App for Resolving and Managing Consumer Complaints

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has made some significant changes to the Trai Tariff Regime, which was rolled out last year. These new rules govern what the customers pay for their channels, and subsequently for their DTH and cable TV services. However, that does not mean that Trai is solely focusing on the DTH industry for now. There are multiple areas which Trai wants to address as part... Read More

January 7th, 2020 7:34 PM 10 COMMENTS

Trai DTH Rule Changes: New NCF Channel Limit Might Not Benefit a Lot of People

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) made some reeling change on the first day of the year. As the new year knocked its way into the people’s lives, so did a new change for the DTH industry as well. Under this new notification which Trai released on January 1, the telecom regulator announced a plethora of changes which will change how the industry is functioning starting March 1. The... Read More

January 7th, 2020 6:59 AM 7 COMMENTS

Trai New DTH Rules: Does It Really Mean Lower TV Bills Or Will You Pay More?

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) dropped a significant notification on the New Year’s Day announcing the changes from the discussions and consultations paper held over the past few months. While the first half of 2019 went into the implementation of the Trai tariff regime or the National Tariff Order (NTO), the other half of it went into fixing the so-called “drawbacks” of the NTO. After a lot of... Read More

January 6th, 2020 9:25 AM 0 COMMENTS

Trai Report Reveals Good Broadband Sector Growth With Almost 2 Crore New Subscribers

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), in its monthly report, mentions the number of subscribers industry-wise for all the important industries like the broadband, wireless, DTH, FM Radio and more. The figures are very important and crucial for the industry because they help us track of the industry's health, consumer interest, companies, and other things. As per this report, for the month ending in October 2019, the broadband subscribers... Read More

January 3rd, 2020 1:04 PM 1 COMMENTS

Trai New DTH Rule Changes Reduce Multi TV Pricing Along With Other Positive Amendments

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has been working to bring some changes to the new tariff regime, which it had implemented last year. The tariff regime was one of the far-reaching things that the DTH industry had ever seen. It was a pan-India exercise for the DTH companies as they had to migrate their subscribers from the previous pricing regime to the new rules. For the subscribers as... Read More

January 1st, 2020 4:42 PM 12 COMMENTS

Trai Makes Changes to Tariff Regime: 200 Channels at Rs 130, 40% NCF for Multi TV Users and More

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has finally released the amendments to the tariff regime. Trai's new tariff regime in the broadcasting sector became effective on April 1, 2019, but TV viewers had several issues with the major one being the increased monthly bills. To address the issues with Trai tariff regime, Trai issued two consultation papers on August 16, 2019, and September 15, 2019. Trai has addressed various... Read More

January 1st, 2020 2:01 PM 0 COMMENTS

Trai Paves Path for Testing Wireline Services Before Rollout With New Consultation Paper

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has issued some major regulatory measures in 2019, which defined the face of the telecom industry. However, on the last day of the year, the telecom regulator issued another major release in which it defined the draft regulations for “Network testing before Commercial launch of services for Wireline Access Services”. It is worth noting that there had been a consultation paper on the... Read More

December 30th, 2019 6:50 PM 1 COMMENTS

Trai Set-Top Box Interoperability Fails to Gain Support of Tata Sky, Dish TV and Other DTH Operators

One of the best things that the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has been working on this year is the Set-Top Box Interoperability. Now the concept and the idea has been in the DTH industry since the last few months, but apparently now that the idea is being vetted by the DTH operators, who are going to be the one implementing the idea, it has not seen the best... Read More

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