Cable operators keep trai in the dark

Updated On: 06 February, 2013 08:47 AM IST | | Priyanka Deshpande

Entertainment Duty department to stop signal to 1,051 cable TV operators for not complying with Telecom Regulatory Authority of India order to disclose 80 per cent of total client base in district before March 31st deadline for installation of set top boxes; despite authority allowing operators to keep remaining 20 per cent as profit, none have provided data.

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Cable TV fanatics across the district could be met with blankscreens for no fault of theirs, but because their cable operators have turned a deaf ear to the orders issued by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).

The authority plans to gather data of the number of cable connections in the district in a bid to stop distribution of connections illegally, and has ordered operators to disclose 80 per cent of their total connections, but allowed 20 per cent connections as their profit.