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In a new statement, chairman of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), RS Sharma has said that the regulator is open to fine-tuning the new Trai tariff regime to address any “aberrations”, as per an ET Telecom report. However, the chairman has also said that the regulator won’t rush into this step without collecting adequate data backup. According to Sharma, the new Trai tariff regime has been a game changer in a way, as it has brought transparency into the pricing for the customers of DTH and cable services and provided a level playing field for the companies in the industry. Sharma said, “When a new thing is put in place, you always notice that in some areas, things are not working out the way you had imagined, or in some areas, some finetuning is required.”
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Trai to First Look for Inconsistencies in New Tariff Regime
The Trai chairman said that before making any move, the industry watchdog is looking at any aberrations if they exist in the current Trai tariff regime, before moving on to the rectification process. He further added, “Finetuning will require some data, and we don’t want to get into that on the basis of anecdotes, ARPU (average revenue per user), number of litigations, etc. We’re looking at this carefully and collecting data and will finetune (the regulation) at the right time.”
To recall, Trai had introduced the new regulatory framework last year, which brought fair pricing into the industry for channels, thus pricing them individually. This allowed the DTH and Cable TV subscribers to pay only for the channels they watch and with transparency. After a few extensions and a long migration process of the subscribers to the new tariff regime, the rules finally went onto be implemented on February 1 this year.
