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Section - 1: Background
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M/s. Tata Sky Ltd. is one of the two licensees currently providing Direct
To Home (DTH) services in the country. Before the rollout of their services,
certain clarifications were sought by M/s. Tata Sky Ltd. from the Government
regarding the license conditions for DTH services providers.
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The Ministry of I&B, Government of India, in turn sought
recommendations of TRAI (hereinafter called the “Authority”) on the licensing
issues relating to DTH services on which clarifications were sought by M/s.
Tata Sky Ltd. The letters of Ministry of I&B, Government of India and M/s.
Tata Sky Ltd. are attached as Annexures I to V of these Recommendations.
The issues that require to be addressed are briefly indicated here and are set out
more fully in the respective sections in which these issues are discussed in
detail:-
i)
Whether there is any need for amendment of the license
conditions to exclude personal video recorders (PVRs) /digital
video recorders (DVR)s) from the requirement of interoperability
as mandated in clauses 7.1 and 7.2 of the DTH License
Conditions.
ii)
DTH operators provide platform services to their subscribers to
enable them to use the service efficiently. Do the provision of
these services require any permission under the uplinking
guidelines?
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