News TRAI suggests interoperability methods for DTH consumers; issues draft tariff order

[Deepu]

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has issued a draft Tariff Order (TO) for consultation with stakeholders prescribing a framework for commercial interoperability of Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) offered by the Direct-to-Home (DTH) operators to their subscribers.

In the DTH sector, as on date, CPEs deployed by one operator may not be compatible with the network of another operator and a subscriber cannot migrate to another operator or platform without re-investing in another CPE.

Indian Television Dot Com | TRAI suggests interoperability methods for DTH consumers; issues draft tariff order

 

[SUNIEL]

its just time pass by trai as it will take ages to come alive

 

[Technoglitch]

it will take ages to implement and our grandchildren would be benefitted

 

[NinadG]

From the news, it appears that Trai is aiming at interoperability by means of buyback of CPE from consumers by DTH.
Atleast there has to DTH portability by using third party STB & CAM.

But the attempt by Trai is something like buying more time..................already 10 years have been passed since DTH ops started.................

 

[IndianMascot]

And I am sure they won't be able to implement interoperability in existing boxes. They need to make a common aggregator in India who would provide unique CAM module to all dth operators to implement it in all their upcoming boxes.

 

[DashMajor]

Actually dish launched CCAM called dish freedom card which got connected to PCI slot of STBs they were approved DTH from TRAI but because of no response they discontinued it. Basically all DTH locked the slot and keep on luring subscribers by giving good recharge offers also if bhakts are happy then why we even cares of portability ? For 2 - 3 peoples demand no scheme will be implemented.