TRAI notifies amendments to tariff order for broadcast sector

New Delhi: Broadcast regulator TRAI on Tuesday brought back the rule restraining television channels with a subscription fee of more than Rs 19 per month as part of a bouquet. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) notified the amendments to Tariff Order 2017 and Interconnection Regulations 2017 that now allow a broadcaster to offer a maximum discount of 45 per cent while pricing its bouquet of pay channels over the sum of MRPs of all the pay channels in that bouquet.

“Only those channels which are having MRP of Rs 19 or less will be permitted to be part of a bouquet,” it said.