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MUMBAI: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) chairman Pradip Baijal has expressed the hope that once the Tata-Star DTH platform T-Sky launches next year the market...
MUMBAI: After having dealt with some of the pressing matters of the broadcast industry, broadcast and telecom regulator has now trained its guns on removing hurdles...
NEW DELHI: Broadcast regulator Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) today recommended that the first phase of digitalisation of cable TV should start from April 2006...
NEW DELHI: Conditional access system (CAS), which had fallen off the radar screen of the media industry and consumers, is set to stage a come back....
The Authority today issued a Direction making it mandatory for Internet Service Providers to obtain explicit consent of the subscribers before making Value Added Services chargeable....
NEW DELHI: Broadcast regulator Trai today paved the way for private players entry into terrestrial broadcasting by suggesting to the government it would stoke competition and...
MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has issued a consultation paper to deliberate on various issues relating to transition from IPv4 to IPv6. This...
MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), today gave the green signal for 100 per cent foreign ownership in satellite radio services with no entry...
MUMBAI: MUMBAI: Hathway Bhawani Cabletel & Datacom is facing pressure of a switch-off from Zee-Turner. In the first week of this month, the multi system operator...
BANGALORE: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) conducted an open house on 24 May in Bangalore to discuss its consultation paper on interconnection usage charge...
NEW DELHI: Telecom regulator today recommended that spectrum fee paid by service providers to the government be lowered to four per cent (of the revenue) and...
MUMBAI: The days of cell phone companies foisting value added services “surreptitiously” on consumers could soon be over. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) today...
MUMBAI: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has decided to retain the previous ceiling tariff for 64 Kbps domestic leased circuits, provided through Managed Leased Line...
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: It’s summer time. It’s Cas (conditional access system) time. Once again. This time, though, the role of skeptics has changed. The cable operators, and...
NEW DELHI: Aimed at liberalising the regime, information and broadcasting ministry has cleared 20 per cent FDI for the private FM radio sector, but stuck to...
MUMBAI: In the new converged paradigm, the boundaries of telecommunications, media and entertainment and information technology (IT) are blurring and the need to have a common...
NEW DELHI: Broadcast regulator Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has extended till 15 April, the deadline for sending in feedback to a consultation paper on...
NEW DELHI: Broadcast regulator Telecom Authority of India (Trai) has said that details of commercial dealings filed with it could be kept confidential, but a service...
MUMBAI: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has reduced the international bandwidth prices by up to 70 per cent. Following this, tariffs for ISD, Internet and...
NEW DELHI: Broadcast and telecom regulator Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has increased the transition period to 120 days for interconnection regulation to come into...
MUMBAI: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) is contemplating approaching the court on the issue of Set Discovery distribution platform ignoring its directions on resuming the...
MUMBAI: Broadcast magazine Cable Quest is attempting to educate everyone concerned with the various aspects of the new developments in broadcasting through a seminar to be...
MUMBAI: SET Discovery has filed a complaint with the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) against Hathway Bhawani Cabletel & Datacom for switching off Sony TV...
NEW DELHI: Carriage fee (paid by TV channels to cable ops) is like the casting couch in the entertainment industry. It exists, but is not discussed...
NEW DELHI: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) is contemplating legal action against One Alliance and Zee Turner for non-compliance of the regulator’s separate directives on...
MUMBAI: Sony Discovery has filed a petition in the Delhi High Court challenging the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (Trai) jurisdiction over contractual matters. This follows...
MUMBAI: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) is contemplating approaching the court on the issue of Set Discovery distribution platform ignoring its directions on resuming the...
MUMBAI: Digitalisation of cable TV is necessary as analogue receivers can’t accommodate more television channels, said the Telcom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) chairman Pradip Baijal,...
NEW DELHI: In what could be taken as a major setback to private FM radio operators, the Delhi high court today dismissed a petition filed by...
MUMBAI: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has extended the last dates for sending comments on the consultation papers it issued on the digitalisation of cable...
NEW DELHI: Broadcast and cable regulator Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has directed country’s first DTH TV service provider to replace set-top boxes (STBs), if...
MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has issued directives to Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) for the withdrawal of the advertisement of Garuda-FW Service which...
MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has directed Sony-Discovery to immediately restore signals of its bouquet of channels to Allahabad-based Three Star Communication which...
NEW DELHI: In its new set of recommendations for Unified Licence, Trai has reduced the revenue share licence fee from 15 percent to 6 per cent...
Maximum Impact! That is the principal criteria that has decided indiantelevision.com’s definitive Top 20 list of the people who mattered in the television firmament in the...
Regulation, as opposed to the market, largely determined trends in India’s cable and satellite distribution business over the past 12 months. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of...
Maximum Impact! That is the principal criteria that has decided indiantelevision.com’s definitive Top 20 list of the people who mattered in the television firmament in the...
BANGALORE/ MUMBAI: In what is going to be a shot in the arm for Asianet and its subscribers, Trai has directed Zee Turner to restore the...
December, 2003. Give us some more time and next year, we would take issues like CAS, DTH, second phase of FM radio and the matter of...
MUMBAI: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has obtained the quality management system certificate license under ISO 9001:2000 from Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), a national...
MUMBAI: Conditional access system (CAS) may not have taken off but the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) now moots setting a deadline for digitalisation of...
MUMBAI: Transparency, a dirty word in the cable TV industry, is what the Telecom and Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) is pressing for. Broadcasters and multi-service...
NEW DELHI: With an eye on expanding the scope of radio broadcast, telecom regulatory Authority of India (Trai) today invited suggestions on issues relating to satellite...
A look at the way the industry functions shows that broadcasters are largely self-censored and generally follow a certain content code that has been set by...
BANGALORE: Asianet Satellite Communications, the largest cable service provider in Kerala, has accused Zee-Turner of illegally switching off signals without giving prior notice, thereby violating the...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) initiatives have energised mangers of country’s first DTH service, Dish TV, 20 per cent owned by the...
MUMBAI/Delhi: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) today formally issued interconnect regulations for the broadcast sector, nixing exclusive broadcaster-distributor contracts and disallowing premium on exclusivity....
NEW DELHI: The private broadcasters’ worst fears are about to come true. The broadcast and cable regulator is likely to issue its final interconnect regulations order...
NEW DELHI: Unfazed by a lukewarm response from the government to some of its earlier radical recommendations on broadcasting, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) today...
The Left parties have sought his immediate dismissal for “criminal connivance” with private telecom operators who, they allege, are under-invoicing their access deficit charges (ADC) payments....
