The information and broadcasting (I&B) ministry is in the process of recommending an amendment in the state-level legislation and guidelines to incorporate cable operators as eligible entities along with telecom service providers and Internet Service Providers to be granted Rights of Way (RoW), which imply the rights of laying down and owning the infrastructure based on optical fibre or cable wire and transmission towers, the hardware that enables distribution of content.
With rules in most states enabling telecom and Internet service providers licensees to be granted RoW, the cable service providers are pressing for extension of the same rights to them if the era of digitalisation has to be ushered in the cable sector.
Trai seeked similar amendments
Even the broadcast regulator Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) had earlier suggested amendments in The Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act,
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