LOCs of Madhya Pradesh get Interim Relief

Indore Bench of Madhya Pradesh High Court on 5th February has given interim relief to the local cable operators on the submission of customer Application Forms (CAFs).. The Court has given 15 more days to LCOs in Madhya Pradesh to complete the collection of CAFS. 

The Malwa Cable Operator Sangh (MCOS) has filed a writ petition challenging the TRAI tariff order and interconnect regulation. In its petition, the MCOS had pleaded that the tariff order and interconnect regulation must be quashed and set aside till final disposition of the petition.  In its petition, the MCOS had said that the submission of CAFs to the MSOs would make them vulnerable as the latter would have access to all details about their customers. 

The petition also stated that the tariff order and the interconnect regulation were arbitrary and discriminatory towards the LCOs who own the last-mile customers. This, the MCOS argued, would put the LCOs at a disadvantage vis-à-vis the MSOs. Ajit Singh Baveja, a member of MCOS, stated that the association would most likely move the Supreme Court against the digital addressable system (DAS) regulation as they have got only interim relief.

Source: http://cablequest.org/news/digitization-news/item/4229-locs-of-madhya-pradesh-get-interim-relief.html