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  • Star-TRAI case hearing in Madras High Court starts

    NEW DELHI: Final hearing commenced in the petition by Star India and Vijay TV challenging the jurisdiction of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India to issue tariff orders on the ground that content came under the Copyright Act.

    Although the Supreme Court had in early May while staying the tariff order directed the Madras High Court to complete hearing within four weeks, the high court had earlier this month listed matter to come up for today.

    Heeding the directive of the apex court to hear the matter on a day-to-day basis, the hearing which commenced today will continue for another two or three days until it is concluded.

    The hearing in the court was today confined to hearing the counsel for Star India who is expected to continue tomorrow as well. This will be followed by counsel of the TRAI and the Union of India.

    Meanwhile, TRAI TV reference interconnect offer (RIO) and Quality of service order (QoS) came into effect from 2 May following the order of the High Court.

    Although the high court chief justice Indira Banerjee and Justice M Sundar had listed the matter for 12 June, it issued directions before that date that the matter would come up today (on Tuesday).

    In the hearing in April-end, it had said Section 3 of the Tariff order and all other consequences of such implementation/enforcement would be subject to the outcome of the main petition.

    Apart from the Tariff order which had originally been issued on 10 October last year, the regulator also issued the DAS Interconnect Regulations which had been issued on 14 October last year, and the Standards of Quality of Service and Consumer Protection (Digital Addressable Systems) Regulations which had been issued on 10 October last year.

    The orders can be seen at:
    http://trai.gov.in/sites/default/files/Tariff_Order_English_3%20March_20…
    http://www.trai.gov.in/sites/default/files/QOS_Regulation_03_03_2017.pdf
    http://www.trai.gov.in/sites/default/files/Interconnection_Regulation_03…

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  • Star India appeal in SC challenging TRAI’s HC verdict slated for Monday

    NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court is expected to hear on 8 May the appeal by Star India and Vijay TV challenging the order of the Madras High Court refusing to stay the DAS tariff order of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.

    A bench headed by Chief Justice J S Kehar had earlier this week said the matter would come up for hearing in due course.  

    Meanwhile, TRAI TV reference interconnect offer (RIO) and Quality of service order (QoS) came into effect from 2 May following the order of the High Court.

    High Court Chief Justice Indira Banerjee and Justice M Sundar had directed the main petition by Star India and Vijay TV to be heard on 12 June. However, the court had said Section 3 of the Tariff order and all other consequences of such implementation/enforcement would be subject to the outcome of the main petition.

    The broadcasters had challenged the order of TRAI on the grounds that it had no jurisdiction over content, and that actually came under Copyright Act, which is not administered by TRAI.

    Apart from the Tariff order which had originally been issued on 10 October last year, the regulator also issued the DAS Interconnect Regulations which had been issued on 14 October last year, and the Standards of Quality of Service and Consumer Protection (Digital Addressable Systems) Regulations which had been issued on 10 October last year.

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    Hearing of Star – TRAI case begins before MHC chief justice

    Decks cleared for TRAI tariff order implementation as HC declines stay (updated)