Additionally, it asked for opinions on whether the broadcasters should cut off television channels for MSOs whose registration has expired and they haven’t submitted an application for renewal. The signals of a television station can be obtained by an MSO with current registration, according to the regulations. Should registered operational MSOs be granted a longer period of time to apply for renewal than the initial registration period? What should be the maximum amount of time after expiration that the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting can consider a request for renewal? These are the questions that the sector regulator has raised. The regulator also requested opinions on whether late-arriving renewal applications should be subject to an extra cost. The TRAI also requested input from the stakeholders on the list of compliances that should be made a requirement for such a procedure, as well as the prescription of qualifying requirements for MSO registration renewal. Beginning in 2012, the nation’s broadcasting industry underwent a digital transformation, which was finished in March 2017. During the implementation of the distribution antenna system in June 2012, the ministry of information and broadcasting provided the first new registrations to multisystem operators.
