Mysuru: With the Centre issuing new guidelines on charging cable customers, which would result in high rent for cable TV customers and expensive cable connections, cable TV operators, under the banner of Mysuru District Cable TV Operators Welfare Association, held a meeting at the Park opposite the City Law Courts complex here yesterday morning.

Addressing the cable operators, Association President M. Mohan Kumar Gowda said that hitherto the cable operators were charging a rent of Rs.250-300 per month in urban areas and Rs.150-200 per month in rural areas for a single connection, which enabled the viewers to watch channels of all languages.

But the Centre’s recent guidelines based on TRAI’s (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) recommendation requires the operators to charge Rs.300 to 400 a month for every single language, which becomes highly expensive for cable TV customers to watch channels of all languages, he said  adding that the Centre’s new guidelines was not only unscientific, but also a heavy burden on common man and middle-class families who have TV cable connections.

Strongly objecting TRAI recommendation and the Centre’s guidelines, the cable operators will pass a resolution on the future course of action,  to protest against the TRAI’s decision, Gowda said.

Mysuru District Cable TV Operators Welfare Association office-bearers Boregowda, N. Manjunath, P. Anand, Ravikumar and others attended the meeting.

Protest march on Dec.20

Mysuru District Cable TV Operators Welfare Association President Mohan Kumar Gowda said that urging the Centre not to take up TRAI’s new guidelines and continue with the old rules, the Association Members will take out a Protest March on Dec.20 from the Park opposite City Law Courts Complex to the office of the Deputy Commissioner where they would submit a memorandum in this regard. The Association will also submit memorandums to MPs Pratap Simha and R. Dhruvanarayan.

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