Plea In Kerala HC Against TRAI Orders Regulating Capacity Fee, Basic Service Tier And Discounting Offered By Broadcasters [Read Petition]
A plea has been filed in the Kerala High Court challenging the changes brought about with respect to network capacity fee, basic service tier and discounting offered by broadcasters to distributors by TRAI through various Rules, Regulations and Orders. The plea moved by three residents of Kerala, also consumers of cable television networks particularly challenges: the Telecommunication Services Interconnection Regulations, 2017 ; the Telecommunication Services Tariff Order, 2017 ; the Telecommunication Services Interconnection Regulations, 2020 ; and the Telecommunication Services Tariff Order, 2020, as being violative of their fundamental right to obtain information through their cable television subscriptions. Capacity Fee The Petitioners have submitted that though the Telecommunication Services Interconnection Regulations 2017 define network capacity fee, they do not contain any clause providing for "levy of network capacity fee". Notably, Regulation 7 of the Telecommunication Services Interconnection Regulations 2017 sets a cap on the amount of discounting that could have been offered by broadcasters.
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