IndiaCast vs DishTV: The final TDSAT order says it all
Last week, there was a lot of brouhaha about the IndiaCast vs DishTV round of fisticuffs on the DTH operator's "on request channel service" and the former's flurry of ads in newspapers and on TV. Both sides claimed victory, saying the Telecom Disputes Settlement Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) had ruled in their favour. But there was no order in sight.
Today the TDSAT posted it on its web site, with the verdict pronounced by its chairman Aftab Alam. And here are the highlights:
* The tribunal says that a legal objection cannot be taken to Dish TV’s arrangement of ‘on request channels’ which its counsel said would imply that from1 January 2014, 22 IndiaCast channels will be available only as a-la-carte out of its package. The deal with the other 16 channels shall come to an end on 31 March and from 1 April, they would also be treated similarly.
* The Dish TV counsel also clarified that the scroll running on IndiaCast channels shall from now on only say that those channels will be available on a-la-carte basis and people shall be asked to communicate through the SMS number mentioned on it in case they want to subscribe to any of them.
* IndiaCast counsel was requested to give an undertaking to the court that the ads published by its client against Dish TV shall stop.
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