Trai Tells DTH Ops to List Unavailable Channel Packs For New Tariff Regime

The new tariff regime rules charted out by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) bring some heavy changes related to the DTH and the cable TV industry. This basically means that the consumers will see changes going forward in a few days. The new rules kick-off on March 1. Some of the major changes include the pricing of channels and the rules which define the curation of the channel bouquets. Given this, some of the channel packs which are on the market right now and available to the consumers will no longer be available when the new rules come into play. As such, Trai has asked the DTH operators to list the channel packs on their website, which will be obsolete with the new rules. This would also help the DTH subscribers in making their new choices of individual channels or new channel packs for the month of March and onwards.

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Broadcasters Approach High Courts to Oppose New Rules

It is worth noting that while the sector regulator had introduced the new rules at the start of the year itself, the broadcasters have failed to realise the implementation of the same. Trai in its paperwork had given the January 15 deadline for the listing of the new channel prices and the bouquets. However, it has been observed that none of the broadcasters has complied with this deadline. Instead, the broadcasters under the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) have gone ahead and filed petitions in Bombay, Kerala and Gujarat High Court challenging the new Trai rules governing the DTH and broadcasting industry.