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  • DAS: TRAI to hold open house with MSOs, LCOs on draft interconnect agreement

    DAS: TRAI to hold open house with MSOs, LCOs on draft interconnect agreement

    NEW DELHI: Having received inputs from stakeholders and also directives from Courts to expedite the matter, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), on 28 January, will hold an Open House meeting on the draft model and standard interconnection agreements between multi-system operators (MSOs) and local cable operators (LCOs) for digital addressable system (DAS).

     

    The regulator had issued a consultation paper on 9 December on the issue and asked for comments and counter-comments on 31 December and 7 January respectively.

     

    The meeting will be held at the PHD Chamber building in south Delhi.

     

    The paper was aimed at reducing disputes and ensures that the regulations for pacts between MSOs and LCOs can only be entered into on the basis of interconnect agreements.

     

    The interconnection regulation further provides that the interconnection agreement between the MSO and its linked LCO shall have the details of various activities rendered by LCO and MSOs, and the revenue settlement between the parties for these services. The regulatory framework applicable for DAS also provides that the revenue share between LCO and MSO shall be determined by mutual agreement. In case the MSO and the LCO fail to arrive at mutual agreement, TRAI has mandated the subscription revenue share between the MSO and the LCO as a fall back arrangement.

     

    The model is the outcome of interactions with MSOs and LCOs in various parts of the country between January and October last year, with the objective of enhancing awareness about the regulatory framework among stakeholders and to assess the compliance of the regulatory framework.

  • DAS: TRAI to hold open house with MSOs, LCOs on draft interconnect agreement

    DAS: TRAI to hold open house with MSOs, LCOs on draft interconnect agreement

    NEW DELHI: Having received inputs from stakeholders and also directives from Courts to expedite the matter, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), on 28 January, will hold an Open House meeting on the draft model and standard interconnection agreements between multi-system operators (MSOs) and local cable operators (LCOs) for digital addressable system (DAS).

     

    The regulator had issued a consultation paper on 9 December on the issue and asked for comments and counter-comments on 31 December and 7 January respectively.

     

    The meeting will be held at the PHD Chamber building in south Delhi.

     

    The paper was aimed at reducing disputes and ensures that the regulations for pacts between MSOs and LCOs can only be entered into on the basis of interconnect agreements.

     

    The interconnection regulation further provides that the interconnection agreement between the MSO and its linked LCO shall have the details of various activities rendered by LCO and MSOs, and the revenue settlement between the parties for these services. The regulatory framework applicable for DAS also provides that the revenue share between LCO and MSO shall be determined by mutual agreement. In case the MSO and the LCO fail to arrive at mutual agreement, TRAI has mandated the subscription revenue share between the MSO and the LCO as a fall back arrangement.

     

    The model is the outcome of interactions with MSOs and LCOs in various parts of the country between January and October last year, with the objective of enhancing awareness about the regulatory framework among stakeholders and to assess the compliance of the regulatory framework.

  • PHD Chamber to join hands with I&B Ministry to launch campaign about piracy

    PHD Chamber to join hands with I&B Ministry to launch campaign about piracy

    NEW DELHI: Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar today welcomed the initiative taken by the PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry to launch a joint campaign to create awareness about video and software piracy.

     

    The Minister was responding to an offer by the Chamber whose Media and Entertainment Committee members met today.

     

    While they thanked the Minister for removing service tax from television advertising, they said the music and film industry was facing a major problem because of illegal piracy.

     

    The delegation offered its services for an awareness campaign in this regard among general public through conferences, awareness campaigns and painting competitions among school children.

     

    The delegation was led by Chamber president Sharad Jaipuria with vice presidents Alok Sri Ram  and Media and Entertainment Committee chairman Mukesh Gupta, ED Saurabh Sanyal and senior secretary Yogesh Srivastava.

  • Sample parameters more crucial than size: TAM

    NEW DELHI: Brushing aside allegations of corruption in its television audience measurement system, TAM Media Research CEO L V Krishnan on Friday said the parameters of judging viewership and not headcount mattered as far as television ratings were concerned.

    Defending the method of functioning adopted by the TAM, Krishnan said that an adequate number of TV households were being covered all over the country to provide a good sample to the industry.

    As an example, he said one did not need to count every person who is left-handed to know how many people wore their watches on the left hand.

    Speaking at a round-table on “Current Scenario of Television Audience Measurement (TAM) in India”, he, however, admitted that there was less coverage in rural areas.

    He also said that TAM was in the process of increasing its sample size in both the rural and urban areas of the country.

    He said that TAM today had a reach to 36,000 individuals, and said its technology was keeping pace with the latest technologies for giving accurate rating samples.

    The PHD Chamber had organized the round-table bringing the Central Government and other stakeholders to come together on a common platform, evaluate the current rating system and prevent diluting the importance and essence of TAM.

    Others who took part in the roundtable included Bharat Bambawale, Vice Chairman – North, The Indian Society of Advertisers and Director, Global Brand, Bharti Airtel Ltd.; Ravi Dixit, Director – Research, Disney UTV; Centre for Media Studies Director P N Vasanti; and Nagesh Alai, immediate past president, Advertising Agencies Association of India.