Trai to float broadcast tariff consultation paper in 4-6 weeks

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) is planning to return out with a brand new session paper on points associated to regulatory framework for the broadcasting sector, a senior official stated.

“The brand new session paper will come out within the subsequent 4 to 6 weeks,” Trai principal advisor (broadcasting and cable providers) Anil Kumar Bhardwaj informed ET.

It’s going to talk about points like a ceiling on community capability payment, multi-TV connection tariff, carriage payment, and level-playing subject almost about pricing of TV channels.

The regulator may even provoke dialogue on points like minimal subscription interval for a tv channel, itemizing of tv channels as per style/ language, and income share between multi-system operators (MSO) and native cable operators (LCO).

A lot of the points on this session paper will give attention to the objects of curiosity for distribution service suppliers like direct-to-home (DTH) and cable TV service suppliers, Bhardwaj stated.

This would be the second session paper by Trai to deal with the issues of various stakeholders over the implementation of the brand new tariff framework.

The regulator had earlier issued a session paper on ‘Points associated to new regulatory framework for broadcasting and cable providers’.