New Delhi, Jan. 13 -- Defending its new tariff rules, India's telecom regulator on Monday, January 13, said that its new tariff rules for cable and the digital television players were fair. Also, it said that the tariff rules aimed to curb excessive pricing by some broadcasters.
R. S. Sharma, chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) said, "We have not curbed anybody's freedom to price the channels. So I don't know how people can say that we have strangulated them or we have not given freedom."
This comes after some of the biggest television broadcasters operating in India, on Friday, January 10 joined forces to advance criticism against the regulation, saying the tariff rules could put some channels out of business and...