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New Delhi: In a relief to cable subscribers in 38 cities across the country, broadcast regulator TRAI has extended the deadline for collection of Consumer Application Forms (CAF) by Multi System Operators (MSOs) to November 15 from its previous deadline of September 20.
The regulator, in a meeting held yesterday, felt there was considerable pendency as the forms had not been received from many cable subscribers of the 38 cities where the second phase of digitisation had been ushered in.
The MSOs have also informed TRAI about the complexity and enormity involved in the task to get CAF for all subscribers in a short time.
TRAI has now increased the time span for filling up of CAF, which is mandatory under rules for Digitised Cable, by November 15 after which it would ask MSOs to disconnect services to consumers who have not provided these details.
In its statement released here, TRAI said the decision to postpone the deadline had been taken with a view to minimising consumer inconvenience that could happen if the MSO immediately switched off the signals.
The 38 cities in which digitisation of cable under phase-2 was ushered include Agra, Ahmedabad, Allahabad, Amritsar, Aurangabad, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Chandigarh, Coimbatore, Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Howrah, Hyderabad, Indore, Jabalpur, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Kalyan-Dombivli, Kanpur, Lucknow, Ludhiana, Meerut, Mysore, Nagpur, Nasik, Navi Mumbai, Patna, Pimpri, Chinchwad, Pune, Rajkot, Ranchi, Sholapur, Srinagar, Surat, Thane, Vadodara, Varanasi and Visakhapatnam.
http://zeenews.india.com/business/news/technology/cable-tv-trai-extends-deadline-for-filling-caf-in-38-cities_85422.html
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The regulator, in a meeting held yesterday, felt there was considerable pendency as the forms had not been received from many cable subscribers of the 38 cities where the second phase of digitisation had been ushered in.
The MSOs have also informed TRAI about the complexity and enormity involved in the task to get CAF for all subscribers in a short time.
TRAI has now increased the time span for filling up of CAF, which is mandatory under rules for Digitised Cable, by November 15 after which it would ask MSOs to disconnect services to consumers who have not provided these details.
In its statement released here, TRAI said the decision to postpone the deadline had been taken with a view to minimising consumer inconvenience that could happen if the MSO immediately switched off the signals.
The 38 cities in which digitisation of cable under phase-2 was ushered include Agra, Ahmedabad, Allahabad, Amritsar, Aurangabad, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Chandigarh, Coimbatore, Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Howrah, Hyderabad, Indore, Jabalpur, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Kalyan-Dombivli, Kanpur, Lucknow, Ludhiana, Meerut, Mysore, Nagpur, Nasik, Navi Mumbai, Patna, Pimpri, Chinchwad, Pune, Rajkot, Ranchi, Sholapur, Srinagar, Surat, Thane, Vadodara, Varanasi and Visakhapatnam.
http://zeenews.india.com/business/news/technology/cable-tv-trai-extends-deadline-for-filling-caf-in-38-cities_85422.html
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