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TRAI's Paper On Uplinking/Downlinking TV Channels
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The consultation paper incorporates various issues for the purpose of discussion.
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Monday, March 15, 2010:
The Telecom Regulatory Authority Of India (TRAI) has released a consultation paper on "Policy Issues On Uplinking/Downlinking TV Channels In India". The consultation paper has attempted to incorporate various issues for the purpose of discussion. As is the practice, views of the Authority will be finalised after receiving comments of the stakeholders.
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The television and broadcasting industry has grown tremendously during the last two decades. The industry has changed the way of life of masses of the country. In the last few years, the number of satellite television channels has increased manyfold, from 136 channels in 2005 to close to 500 channels today. At present various satellite TV channels of different genres and languages are available to the public.
The demand of a number of TV channels to be uplinked and downlinked has increased during the recent past. This raised the concern of the efficient utilisation of the finite resources such as spectrum and limited availablity of transponder space on the satellites which have their footprints over India. The ministry of information and broadcasting has requested TRAI to look into various issues associated with the subject such as inter alia, cap on number of satellite television channels, eligibility criteria for and process of granting permission and guidelines to develop the country into a teleport/hub for uplinking/turnaround of TV channels which are not meant for viewing in India ,etc.
At present the permission for uplinking a satellite TV channel is governed by the uplinking guidelines. All the satellite TV channels downlinked/received/transmitted and re-transmitted in India for public viewing are also required to obtain permission under the downlinking guidelines issued by government of India.
The stakeholders are expected to send in their detailed views before April 5, 2010. Comments will be posted on TRAI’s website as and when they are received. Counter comments, if any, to the comments received may be sent to TRAI by 15 April, 2010. These may please be furnished to Secretary, TRAI, preferably in electronic form. [E-mail: traicable@yahoo.co.in or bcs@trai.gov.in]. The fax numbers of TRAI are 011-23220442/ 011-23213294.
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