The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) Wednesday has pushed back implementation of new tariff regime, also known as NTO 2.0, to April 2022, saying there was demand from industry on this. According to TRAI, many service providers and their a...
Category: TRAI
Telecom Regulatory Authority Of India (TRAI), Act,1997, is the statutory body set up by the Government of India, to regulate the Telecommunications services in India.
Changing TV landscape has made TRAI revisit cable distribution monopoly
Sample some facts. India’s television industry was worth INR 68,5002 crore in 2020. Subscription revenues account for around 60-65 percent of the overall industry revenue. There are over 900 TV channels and 1,500 MSOs licenced by the government. As per latest data from Broadcast Audience Research Council India, in Ju...
TRAI issues discussion paper on mkt structure, competition in cable TV
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Monday issued a consultation paper on issues related to market structure and competition in cable television services, and invited comments from stakeholders.
The move has been initiated following a reference from the Ministry of In...
India active DTH subs 69.86 mn. as on June-21; March-end figure was 69.57 mn.
India’s pay DTH platforms registered a slower growth rate during the period between April and June 2021, according to data released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).
TRAI flays channel rates announced by pay TV broadcasters
Terming criticism of its revised tariff regime or NTO 2.0 as “a fictional pretention” as it does not entail or prescribe grounds for increasing prices of TV channels, broadcast carriage regulator TRAI said Thursday...
TN digital cable TV operators’ body sends legal notice to TRAI
The Tamil Nadu Digital Cable TV Operators Association, a lobbying body for cable TV networks in the south Indian State of Tamil Nadu, has sent a legal notice to regulator TRAI urging it to direct the pay TV broadcasters to desist from increasing the TV channels’ prices as it w...