Wednesday 12 February 2014

TRAI may introduced content aggregators regulation this week

Regulatory body Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) in this week may come out with its set of regulations for content aggregators, laying out guidelines that will have widespread and deep implications for the broadcast sector.  Rahul Khullar in a press release stated that we are in the process of finalising our regulations [for content aggregators], which will be issued sometime this week. Explaining the rationale for bringing out the new regulations, Khullar said that content aggregators exercise market power over the MSOs. “The content aggregators are owned by the broadcasters, so it’s not a pure principal-agent relationship. There are conflicts of interests. That is a serious problem and leads to pricing issues and other difficulties,” Khullar averred. 
Taking a serious note of complaints filed by MSOs and local cable operators (LCOs) about abuse of dominant position by television distribution companies like Media Pro, IndiaCast UTV, MSM Discovery and Sun Distribution Services, TRAI had issued a draft notification to correct the existing anomalies in the market. The main clause in the notification was to ensure that an individual bouquet created by the content aggregator has channels from only one broadcaster.

Source: http://cablequest.org/news/national-news/item/4259-trai-may-introduced-content-aggregators-regulation-this-week.html

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