Electronic And Postal Communications (Digital and other Broadcasting
Networks)
G.N. No. 418 (contd)
explanations to the Authority three months before the expiry date
of the permit, giving reasons for not accomplishing the
construction within the period indicated in the permit.
(6) Upon receiving written explanations the Authority
shall conduct due diligence to establish whether the reasons given
are valid and may reject and cancel the permit or accept and
extend the permit to a maximum period of twelve months without
further extension.
Obligations of
multiplex
operator
7.
The Network Facilities Licensee who has been
authorized to provide digital terrestrial broadcasting multiplexing
and signal distribution services shall comply with the following(a)
to provide access to Free to Air Content Services
licensees as primary obligation;
(b)
to provide access to subscription (pay television) on
secondary basis;
(c)
to make available, provisioning of content
aggregation and programme bouquet handling system
that shall support data paths embedded in the DVB
stream based on open source (non-proprietary)
multimedia system to support Electronic Programme
Guide (EPG) and Electronic Programme Information
(EPI) for Free-To-Air (FTA) and Conditional Access
for subscription services. The schedule on Set-TopBox (STB) shall describe all services carried on the
Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) platform for the
following 7 days;
(d)
submit annually to the Authority for its approval an
updated roll-out plan for the provision of National
Network Facilities to provide digital terrestrial
broadcasting multiplexing and signal distribution
services;
(e)
to provide services to current and new content service
licensee on a fair, transparent, impartial and nondiscriminatory manner;
(f)
to construct, operate, install, manage and maintain
network facilities in accordance with the regulations
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