Discussion TRAI announced important changes in the Tariff Order

[Rajat Basak]

TRAI also considered the concern of broadcasters regarding huge carriage fee being charged by DPOs. In order to address the concern of huge carriage fee, the Authority has mandated that MSOs, HITS operators, IP TV service providers will not have target market bigger than State or Union Territory as the case may be.
In addition, a cap of Rs 4 lakh per month has been prescribed on carriage fee payable by a broadcaster to a DPO in a month for carrying a channel in the country..
Source from TRAI: https://t.co/wUi5VXKtor?amp=1

 

[jethva]

No change in consumer point of view. NCF not reduced, it’s a pricing game for broadcasters in formation of bouquets and a la carte channel rates. So, never expect reduction in Cable/DTH bill from March.

Exactly

 

[vrishraj]

This bouquets not help d2h customers since they don't provide all bouquets, reason they deliberately miss one of the channel in that bouquets and they omit that bouquet. Trai should ask all dth operators to give all available channels then only these broadcaster bouquets helpful..

 

[Siva]

TRAI has done their homework this time. They have removed the need for a basic tier FTA pack, through which many DPOs were fooling the consumers for more NCF. The full order has many more details as below.

This tariff order empowers consumers to choose any 200 channels i.e. pay or FTA channels or bouquet(s) of pay channels or bouquet(s) of pay channels or any combination of their choice apart from mandatory channels of government, there is no need to continue with a bouquet of basic service tier which requires DPOs to offer a bouquet of100 FTA channels of different genres. This will also address the concerns of some small broadcasters who have informed the Authority that some DPOs are making a bouquet of BST of their preferred channels denying them a level playing field. The Tariff order reflects these changes. As such there will be no package called BST bouquet giving wrong impression as if such bouquet has to be mandatorily provided to all the subscribers.

Please read the full order here, there are so many interesting points.

https://main.trai.gov.in/sites/default/files/Regulation_Tariff_Order_01012020_0.pdf

 

[Prithi Deb]

What is BST?

 

[vrishraj]

What is BST?

Basic service tier used in d2h

 

[IamTRoy4]

What is BST?

Basic Service Tier, which contains region & genre based small FTA packages, offered by DishTV & D2h

 

[IamTRoy4]

So..
→ Broadcasters need to make their new plans and submit that to DTH & Cable operators by 15th January.
→ Then DPOs need to publish those packages on their Website by January 31st.
→ And from February 1 we the users need to subscribe the new packs by 29th February.

And then from 1st march these packs will become effective!

So this means, TRAI took 3 YEARS (March 2017 to March 2020) to fully implement new plans.!!

 

[IamTRoy4]

I was hoping for Variable NCF (for viewers like me who only watch 8 fixed channels)

not kiddin'

I literally watch fixed 8 channels, and 5 are for my family
rest are useless.

 

[jaiprakash]

No change in consumer point of view. NCF not reduced, it’s a pricing game for broadcasters in formation of bouquets and a la carte channel rates. So, never expect reduction in Cable/DTH bill from March.

True ,The whole change will only benefit High end user never the Low end ,Had NCF been changed to 100Rs/Month it would probably brought down the bills but,TRAI smartly kept the Crux issue unchecked & unchanged