With MSOs in India struggling to meet the deadline to submit their Consumer Application Forms (CAF), the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has announced there will be a meeting between TRAI officials and MSOs in India on December 16 to iron out the issues.
TRAI had earlier set the deadline for the collection and submission of CAFs to be December 15 but will several big MSOs in the country unable to do so, the body seems to have yielded a bit to the pleas of MSOs. Hathway Cable & Datacom MD and CEO Jagdish Kumar G. Pillai said, “Though in the last meeting, we had asked for a one month extension to complete CAF, the regulator had given clear directions to complete CAFs in the specified period of 15 days. Our national average for CAF is around 65 per cent. While in a few areas we have achieved 90 per cent CAF, there are also areas like Hyderabad where we have still not collected any CAF.”
MSOs have especially struggled in areas like Hyderabad where there is no clear direction as to which areas of the region come under DAS areas. In September, TRAI had notified that cable subscribers in 38 cities across the country,TRAI had extended its deadline from September 20 to November 15. It had later increased that deadline as well to December 15.
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