TRAI has released a draft tariff order for non addressable cable TV and is asking for comments on the same from stakeholders. This comes after the Supreme Court’s order in September wherein it had asked stakeholders to submit views by 30 September.

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The apex court in its order has disposed off the appeals, while leaving all the questions of law open. It also ordered that status quo will continue till 31 December 2014. The order further stated that TRAI will attempt to notify the fresh tariff order immediately after 31 December 2014. Since the last consultation paper had been given out in 2010, TRAI felt that stakeholders need to relook entirely. With this, TRAI has now extended by 15 December, which it says will be final.

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In the meantime, to be called Telecommunication (Broadcasting and cable) services (seventh) (non-addressable systems) Tariff Order, 2014 (draft) will come into effect from 1 January 2015 and will be applicable to broadcasting and cable services provided to cable subscribers throughout India through non addressable systems.

The Telecommunication (Broadcasting and Cable) Services (Fourth) (Addressable Systems) Tariff Order, 2010 (1 of 2010) shall apply to only DAS areas.

For wholesale tariff, broadcasters have to specify their channels rates both a-la-carte as well as bouquets provided that the a-la-carte and bouquet rates for pay and free to air (FTA) channels shall not firstly exceed its current rate before the order comes into force.

In a bouquet the sum of the a-la-carte rates of all channels shall not exceed 1.5 the rate of the entire bouquet. The a-la-carte rate of one channel will not exceed thrice the average rate of a pay channel. The bouquet composition as on 1 December 2007 shall not change.