Tag: DTH licences

  • MSOs warned again not to approach middlemen or touts for licence applications

    MSOs warned again not to approach middlemen or touts for licence applications

    NEW DELHI: Applicants for registration as multi-system operators (MSOs) in digital addressable systems have been warned by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry not to be misled by middlemen.

     

    Reiterating that it uses a very transparent system, the Ministry has said it has come to its notice that there a few who are approaching MSO applicants with false claims for providing MSO licences and demanding some gratifications/bribe to get the work done.

     

    The Ministry says MSO applications with all details furnished are forwarded to Home Ministry for obtaining Security clearance and processed.

     

    All MSO applicants have therefore been asked not to deal with such unauthorised/mischievous persons.

     

    The Ministry organises Open House Meetings, every Tuesday at 11.00 am in Room No.662, A Wing in Shastri Bhavan, New Delhi. For any doubt or enquiry about status of their applications, MSOs may participate/ attend the Open House Meeting by sending an email at obpandl@qmail.com or at das.mib@gmail.com

  • TRAI to host OHD on 10 December for new DTH licences

    TRAI to host OHD on 10 December for new DTH licences

    MUMBAI: The direct-to-home (DTH) players can now put their viewpoints on issues related to new DTH licences. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has called for an open house discussion (OHD) on 10 December at Ghalib Seminar Hall, Ghalib Institute Aiwan-e-Ghalib Marg, New Delhi for stakeholders to meet the regulator and present their viewpoints on the consultation paper and the supplementary consultation paper released earlier by TRAI.

    The regulator had earlier on 1 October issued a consultation paper on extension of DTH licences. The TRAI had later on 14 November also issued a supplementary consultation paper, which sort to get views of the industry stakeholders on the comprehensive review of the provisions in the existing DTH guidelines.