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  • MSOs Sun & Prabhu Cable resolve dispute on allegations of piracy

    MSOs Sun & Prabhu Cable resolve dispute on allegations of piracy

    NEW DELHI: Sun Distribution Services Pvt Ltd has informed the Telecom Disputes Settlement and Arbitration Tribunal (TDSAT) that it will not take any steps against Prabhu Cable Network on allegations of piracy.

     

    Both multi system operators (MSOs) also informed the Tribunal that they had agreed to treat the provisional interconnect agreement agreed into at the instance of the Tribunal as a final agreement.

     

    TDSAT chairman Justice Aftab Alam and members Kuldip Singh and B B Srivastava accordingly treated the petition by Prabhu Cable Network as withdrawn.

     

    The Tribunal by orders of 6 July and 4 August had directed Sun Distribution to enter into the provisional interconnect agreement with the petitioner and to supply its signals to it until final disposal of the matter.

     

    During the pendency of the matter, the parties have come to terms and Sun said it was willing to treat the provisional interconnect agreement as the final agreement.

  • TDSAT pulls up MSO for demanding advance subscription as pre-condition to give signals to LCO

    TDSAT pulls up MSO for demanding advance subscription as pre-condition to give signals to LCO

    NEW DELHI: The Telecom Disputes Settlement and Arbitration Tribunal (TDSAT) has asked Sun Distribution Services to show cause as to why action should not be taken against it for denying signals to local cable operator (LCO) Prabhu Cable Network despite the Tribunal’s orders.

     

    Listing the matter for 2 September, TDSAT chairman Aftab Alam and members Kuldip Singh and B B Srivastava said action was liable under Section 20 of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) Act.

     

    On 6 July as well as on 4 August, TDSAT had asked Sun to give the signals but the company had failed to do so.

     

    The stand taken by Sun is that the areas covered by the LCO are presently in a non-digital addressable system (DAS) area and would come under the DAS ambit from 1 January, 2016. In view of this, the present arrangement would continue only for four and half months and Sun agreed to give signals on condition that the LCO pay the subscription fee up to 31 December in advance at the time of execution of the agreement. 

     

    The Tribunal felt that “asking for subscription fee for four and a half months as the condition for giving signals clearly amounts to flouting the orders of the Tribunal.”

     

    “Besides the condition being wholly unreasonable, it is also in contravention of the Interconnect Regulations,” the Tribunal added.