TDSAT directs Auragabad MSO to pay part of sums due and enter into agreement with MSM Media

TDSAT directs Auragabad MSO to pay part of sums due and enter into agreement with MSM Media

TDSAT

NEW DELHI: Aurangabad Satellite Cable Service Centre has been directed by the Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal to pay a part of its dues to MSM Media Pvt Ltd and to negotiate the terms of a new interconnect agreement.

In his order, member B B Srivastava also asked the MSO to submit within two days the SLRs in respect of the six areas that continue to be under analogue transmission.

Adjourning the matter to 1 August 2016, the Tribunal said he MSO “would be well advised to pay at least a part of the respondent's dues for productive negotiations and interconnect agreement.”

When the matter was taken up on 18 May 2016, it had been adjourned for a week to allow the parties to renegotiate the terms of interconnect agreement and were asked to work out an interconnect agreement on mutual terms.