News Hathway Cable to pay Rs 27 CPS for all Star India channels till final order: TDSAT

[Deepu]

While they continue to negotiate on the final terms of agreement, Star India and Hathway Cable & Datacom were directed by sector arbitrator Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) on Monday to follow an interim commercial arrangement. As per the interim arrangement, Hathway will pay Star at Rs 27 charge per subscriber (CPS) for all the entertainment and sports channels. Earlier, the MSO was paying separately for Star’s entertainment channels which were distributed by MediaPro. It had a fixed fee contract with MediaPro. The Star Sports channels were based on reference interconnect offer (RIO) basis.

Incidentally, Hathway had argued for Rs 22 CPS, while Star India had asked for Rs 31 CPS. The TDSAT has selected a middle path till a final order is given. The case will be next heard on 11 August.

Read more at: http://www.televisionpost.com/television/hathway-cable-to-pay-rs-27-cps-for-all-star-india-channels-till-final-order-tdsat/ | TelevisionPost.com

 

[IndianMascot]

Hathway bite the dust.

 

[Deepu]

Isn't 27 Rs for all the channels including sports dirt cheap?

 

[Deepu]

We as subscribers will not even get 1 sports channel for 25 Rs in a-la-carte

 

[SUNIEL]

30 per subscriber is a big amount.let see, approximately 160 million homes have tv among them 130 million using pay TV. 30 * 13 crore = 490 crore per mth so its not a small amount

 

[Technoglitch]

hathway now has to pay in millions to star network but rs.27 for a whole package is cheap compared to what we pay to Hathaway for genre wise.

 

[SUNIEL]

hathway now has to pay in millions to star network but rs.27 for a whole package is cheap compared to what we pay to Hathaway for genre wise.

trai should mandate this to all aggregator to provide all channels to user for this price. Now hathway should charge 30+4 tax+ 10 carry fee = 44 to user end for all star channels.

 

[ChaiBiskutBhai]

But will Hathway now restore all Star sports channels?

 

[DashMajor]

But they signed a ala carte deal with STAR SPORTS then how they're counting CPS of Entertainment and Sports channels

 

[SUNIEL]

But will Hathway now restore all Star sports channels?

this is not interim order, next hearing will be on 12 aug so next 12 days charge is 27 per user for hathway but not for customer.