The AP high court on Friday issued notices to the Union information & broadcasting ministry and Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) over removal of two free-to-air vernacular news channels by cable operators. Kadumanchi Venkatesh,…Read More
The broadcasting sector is in turmoil what with the number of pay TV subscribers falling in millions, barely six months after introduction of the New Tariff Order (NTO) in February…Read More
When 67-year-old Mumbai resident Ajay Verma received a call from his local cable operator informing him that his cable bill had increased from Rs 375 to Rs 429 a month,…Read More
Bundling is back in the news, and possibly for the wrong reasons. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has, once again, taken a rather dim view of bundling in…Read More
Ranbir Singh Kanwar, 31, from Madangiri, New Delhi, works at a sourcing firm. Till January this year he paid Rs 250 a month to his local cable operator. Soon after…Read More
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has recently rolled out New Tariff Order (NTO) on television channel pricing that will require around six to eight more months to be…Read More
Not long ago, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) had floated a consultation paper which envisaged a third-party app to be developed for channel selection and better consumer choice by…Read More
Discovery Communications, India’s biggest provider of infotainment content, has taken broadcasting regulator TRAI to the Delhi High Court for the second time in three years for trying to bring down…Read More
TRAI may have had the best of intent when it forced satellite TV broadcasting to shift from being a pure bundling space to being an a la carte & bouquet…Read More
There have been concerns building up in the broadcasting industry about the new consultation paper that Trai has floated. The new consultation paper from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India…Read More
Just as the Rs 74,000 crore Indian broadcasting industry was heaving a sigh of relief, comes a new whammy from the regulator. On August 16 a ‘Consultation Paper on Tariff…Read More
With the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) planning to regulate channel bouquets, small channels and broadcasters are staring at an uncertain future, Business Standard reports. The telecom regulator, in a…Read More
A new consultation paper from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on the subject of cable television channel pricing has set alarm bells ringing in the sector. The paper…Read More
TV channel owners have indicated that they may again take media regulator TRAI to court over its latest move to ‘unbundle’ televisions channels. TRAI’s latest move, unveiled in a consultation…Read More
The IBF notes with some concern, the issues raised for consultation by TRAI in the Consultation Paper issued on August 16, 2019. These issues strike at the very heart of…Read More
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s attempts to fix tariffs for the broadcasting sector have disrupted the TV broadcasting sector, without benefiting all stakeholders. The idea of allowing consumers to…Read More
Broadcasters and distribution platform operators (DPOs) are misusing pricing flexibility “to throttle market discovery of TV channel prices by giving huge discounts on the bouquets”, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of…Read More
Indian subscription TV channels face review from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of Indian after viewers complained about higher bills and reduced content selection. India’s telecoms regulator implemented a new broadcast…Read More
Posted by India Ratings and Research India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra) believes the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (TRAI) tariff and interconnection regulations will require six to eight more months…Read More
Broadcasters and distribution platform operators (DPOs) are misusing pricing flexibility “to throttle market discovery of TV channel prices by giving huge discounts on the bouquets”, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of…Read More