(21 June 2012 11:05 pm)

NEW DELHI: A day after the Information and Broadcasting Ministry announced that it is extending the digitisation deadline in the four metros by four months to 1 November, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) today issued a clarification that all its regulations and tariff orders have come into effect from the date of their publication in the official Gazette.

The broadcast sector regulator said that the date of coming into effect of any regulation or order issued by it could only be “as prescribed as Trai”. The Tariff order (Amendment) has come into effect on 30 April and the Quality of Service Regulations, Consumer Complaint Redressal Regulations and Interconnection Regulation (amendment) came into effect on 14 May.

Extending the deadline, the I&B Ministry had, on 20 June, said that “All the Trai regulations for DAS will come into effect from 1 November 2012.”

Trai also stated that the "Regulations and Tariff order has to come into effect prior to the timelines prescribed by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry for timely and effective implementation of DAS.”