The district administration of Nashik, India have warned 44 cable operators in that region who have yet to submit the affidavit on the number of subscribers they have. The administration has told them that if they don’t file the affidavits on time, their connections will be snapped.
There are a total of 345 LCOs in the city of Nashik out of which 89 of them went to court as they did not want to file the affidavits and pay the corresponding entertainment duty accordingly. The additional district collector, BH Pave said, “”Out of 89 LCOs that had gone to court, 45 have filed their affidavits but the remaining 44 were yet to file it. This is the final warning for such LCOs and we have issued notices to them seeking their response within five days. Their inaction would lead to snapping of transmission of data to the LCOs, which will further mean that the customers will be affected.”
According to Pave, if all the LCOs paid their entertainment duty dues, then the district would have collected a sum of USD 319678. As of a month ago, the district administration had gotten USD 250,947 from the city’s LCOs. But this isn’t the only battle that Nashik LCOs are fighting lately. In October they filed a petition with the Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) to allow them to bill their customers independent of their MSOs.
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