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ROOP SHARMA (ARTICLES)

  • Monopolies in Media must be curbed Roop Sharma Curbing monopolies in media is extremely important for a country like India where gap between the rich and the poor is too wide. To improve our economy we need to decrease this gap by giving more opportunities to small and medium enterprises and self employed people to grow.…
  • Why only Courts decide our Regulations It is strange that in spite of TRAI's detailed consultations with industry since 2004 and numerous recommendations, the industry has been lead to the present situation where some basic provisions made by TRAI are being questioned in the court rooms before even properly implementing them. Stake holders have been giving…
  • Cable Industry needs Restructuring The regulations should be made to benefit the consumers and protect the interest of thousands of small entrepreneurs who have been building up the large Cable TV infrastructure for the last twenty years, so that lakhs of people working in small networks and in supporting organizations do not go out…

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  • Better late than never Trai issues Tariff Orders for Supply of STBs/CPEs after Phase-1 & 2 have been completed
  • Roll out of rural Broadband Connecting 250000 Panchayats and 4500 Municipalities with Broadband on Cable TV networks. Introduction Cable TV industry in India is existing for the last 25 years and has connected 100 million households in the country with 35% households in rural areas, Today there is hardly any inhabited place with electricity where…
  • Kids Channels heading for Censorship No one till now thought of censoring the Kids channels. However with the competition growing in the genre a lot of foreign made content is being added on the kids channels that may not be following the content code of India and channels generally overlook such aspect because self regulation…

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  • TRAI extends last date for comments on interconnect agreement draft order For all those in the cable and satellite TV industry, you can take a breather. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) which had issued the draft digital addressable system (DAS) interconnect agreement regulations on 5 June 2013 has extended the last date that they can send their comments.
  • Licences of 20 Multi System Operators cancelled The Information and Broadcasting Ministry has cancelled the licences of 20 Multi System Operators (MSOs) for not meeting the conditions for providing digitised cable services.
  • Viewership gets the Hammering - Thanks to Digitisation Digital channel packages might not be fully active in the digital cable networks in the four metros and 38 cities of first and second phase of Mandatory Digitisation,but their effect on the viewership is already making an adverse impact on TAM ratings. One by one Broadcasters wish to end subscribing…

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