Trai NTO Changes Bring Many New Rules But NCF Pricing Is the Best Of All

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has charted a direction for the DTH and broadcasting industry with the rollout of the new National Tariff Order, or the National Tariff Order 2.0. These are nothing but the amendments by Trai which the regulator has pondered upon in the last year and then rolled them out after a lot of deliberation. These rules will become effective on March 1 across the nation and there are many branches to them. The new rules clearly define the Multi TV policies that the DTH operators will be required to follow along with some specific rules for the channel pricing and long term channel packs. However, if there is one thing that the consumers will especially like in the new National Tariff Order is the pricing of the Network Capacity Fee. This fee, which is also known as the NCF was introduced in the first iteration of the tariff order and is paid by the subscribers to the DTH providers for carrying the channels and depends on the number of channels they watch. With the new tariff order, the NCF might become very cheap. 

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Old NCF Rules Explained

It is first important to reiterate how the NCF rule works in the present scenario. Currently, the subscribers have to pay the base NCF of Rs 130 plus taxes, which makes the total payment to Rs 153 per month for 100 SD channels. Out of these 100 SD channels, the subscribers have to give up the 25 slots for the mandatory DD channels essentially leaving out 75 channel slots. Now the subscribers also have to pay the pay channel charges if they subscribe to a pay channel. Else they could simply subscribe to pay 75 FTA channels without paying anything extra.