Dear All, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has on 4 April 2016 issued a pre-consultation paper on Set Top Box interoperability. The paper is available here: http://trai.gov.in/WriteReadData/WhatsNew/Documents/Pre_consultation_paper_on_interoperablity_final.pdf
While the objective is to identify the key technical and commercial issues, challenges and concerns being faced by the industry in interoperability, but this is a perfect opportunity for us as a sector to pitch for allowing us to use the Set Top Boxes which are accessible irrespective of their manufacturing country, and in the framework we can have an enabling provision that service providers should not deny their smart cards to be used in such Set Top Boxes given that Indian providers are not willing to make it accessible at the moment. Can I request all important stakeholders within the sector to: 1. Fix up a meeting with concerned person mentioned in the consultation paper (applicable to Delhi); 2. Share your inputs on how the draft provision should be proposed to TRAI? 3. Share international experience on (i) availability of accessible Set Top Boxes and (ii) any example where a country not having a legal obligation to make its Set Top Boxes accessible has allowed blind subscribers to use international Set Top Boxes. In case of the latter, it will be helpful to know service provider of the broadcasting content, so that we can reach out to them in understanding the kind of technical modifications which can be proposed in this framework. This can very well be pushed keeping AIC Campaign in mind. For any queries, feel free to drop me an e-mail. Regards, -- Amar Jain. Website: www.amarjain.com Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
