MP HC gives interim relief on CAF submission

Madhya Pradesh High Court on 26 February has extended the deadline of CAF submission by 21 days. This has given local cable operators (LCOs) in the state some relief regarding consumer application form submission.  The court has given this verdict on the petition filed by Malwa Cable Operator Sangh (MCOS). 

Earlier the Indore bench of the MP High Court on 6th February had granted relief to LCOs by the CAF submission in abeyance for 21 days and directed them to seek remedy from appropriate authorities. The MCOS following the direction made by HC filed a petition in TRAI about its grievances with regard to the implementation of digital addressable system (DAS). However, the association is yet to get any response from the sector regulator.    

Since TRAI did not respond to its plea and because the CAF submission deadline was looming large as the 21-day relief period was to end on 27 February, the MCOS moved an application in the HC seeking further relief as its grievances had not been taken care of by the regulator. 

TRAI had set 7 February as the final deadline for all MSOs in Bhopal, Indore and Jabalpur to collect CAFs from their subscribers and feed customer details into their subscriber management system (SMS). The authority had directed MSOs to deactivate set-top boxes (STBs) of all subscribers who failed to submit CAFs before the deadline. The LCOs in the three cities of MP were a worried lot as they had failed to get CAFs from all the subscribers, which would have resulted in blackout in many television homes. 

The MCOS had challenged TRAI’s tariff order and interconnect regulation in its writ petition, and had pleaded to set aside the tariff order and the interconnect regulation till the final disposition of the petition.

Source: http://cablequest.org/news/digitization-news/item/4357-mp-hc-gives-interim-relief-on-caf-submission.html
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