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  • TDSAT directs Meghbala to pay Rs 1.6 cr to Star India within 1 week

    TDSAT directs Meghbala to pay Rs 1.6 cr to Star India within 1 week

    MUMBAI: The Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) has directed Meghbala Cable And Broadband Services Pvt Ltd, in an order dated on 2 September, to pay Rs 1.5 crore to Star India within one week. The cable service provider has been instructed to pay the balance amount of the total outstanding due within a period for further two weeks.

    Star India issued a notice to Meghbala Cable on 13 August disclosing that the latter is required to clear the outstanding dues upto invoiced amount for June aggregating to Rs 2,62,97,810. According to the notice, the cable service provider was supposed to pay the required amount on 3 September.

    Learned counsel for Meghbala Cable has submitted that it has reduced the outstanding dues over a period of three months and hence some more accommodation will enable them to liquidate the entire arrears so that it may start paying the current invoiced amounts in accordance with the agreement and the industrial practice.

    “Evidently, the petitioner (Meghbala Cable ) will be liable to pay the invoiced amount even for subsequent months like July and August, 2019 very soon. Therefore, only a limited accommodation can be granted to the petitioner to clear the outstanding dues covered by the notice. For that purpose, we direct that respondent (Star India) shall not give effect to the impugned notice until further orders if the petitioner pays amount of Rs 1.5 crore within one week from today and the balance amount within a period for further two weeks. We trust that petitioner shall make efforts to pay the future invoiced amount within stipulated time,” TDSAT said in an order on 2 September.

  • TDSAT directs Meghbela Cable to supply details to ZEEL for auditing

    TDSAT directs Meghbela Cable to supply details to ZEEL for auditing

    MUMBAI: Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) has directed multi-system operator (MSO) Meghbela Cable And Broadband Services Pvt Ltd to file an affidavit in the audit dispute with Zee Entertainment Enterprise Ltd (ZEEL). Earlier, ZEEL was allowed to hold a comprehensive audit of respondent’s head-end, SMS and CAS systems without any delay.

    TDSAT has noted that the audit is not making progress because historical data for the relevant period, or what the parties understand as baseline data, is not being supplied by the MSO. The tribunal directed the MSO to make adequate arrangements and preparations and extend full cooperation for the required audit.

    “For that purpose, the MSO has to file an affidavit disclosing the required details before this tribunal within a week. Affidavit should disclose the number of locations and also other relevant particulars,” the latest order read.

    In an earlier hearing, TDSAT directed that the audit should be held by an independent auditor such as KPMG, Ernst and Young where the representatives of both the parties will be entitled to remain present and auditors shall be at liberty to ask for reports from the vendors of the MSO’s systems including SMS and CAS systems.  It was also said that the cost of the audit shall be borne by ZEEL.

    TDSAT also directed to post the matter for reviewing the further progress of audit on 9 August. It also mentioned that the latest order shall also bind the vendors of the MSO.

  • TDSAT permits MSMMD to file restitution application for disconnecting signals to Meghbala

    TDSAT permits MSMMD to file restitution application for disconnecting signals to Meghbala

    NEW DELHI: The Telecom Disputes Settlement and Arbitration Tribunal (TDSAT) today permitted MSM Media Distribution (erstwhile MSM Discovery) to file restitution application as it said that Meghbala Cable and Broadband Services Pvt. Ltd, Behrampore had failed to comply with the Tribunal’s orders.

     

    TDSAT chairman Aftab Alam and members Kuldip Singh and B B Srivastava listed the matter for 24 September when it was informed that Meghbala had failed to comply with the conditions under which it was granted interim protection on 4 June.        

     

    The Tribunal said the interim protection granted to Meghbala was withdrawn by order dated 6 August and MSM Media Distribution was free to disconnect its supply of signals to Meghbala.

             

    MSM Media Distribution also said that it was entitled to seek recovery of subscription fees for supplying its signals to the petitioner in terms of the interim orders passed by the Tribunal.

     

    The Tribunal had on 4 June directed MSM Media Distribution not to give effect to its disconnection notices to Meghbala in Kolkata, Behrampur, Haldia and Bankura pending final orders of the Tribunal. 

     

    The Tribunal had then said MSM Media Distribution will remove the OSDs running on the petitioner’s network provided the petitioner makes an on account payment of Rs 50 lakh to MSM in two instalments, the first instalment of Rs 25 lakh payable by 15 June and the second instalment of Rs 25 lakh by 30 June.

     

    It had said the payment will be without prejudice to the rights and contentions of the parties and will abide by the final outcome of these petitions.