“We implore the federal government to not auction 3,700 MHz to 4,200 MHz band by advantage of the sanctity seemingly granted beneath NFAP-2018 to forestall full decimation of the cable & satellite tv for pc trade and the hundreds of thousands of TV shoppers/viewers,” IBDF president and head of Disney Star Ok Madhavan stated in a letter to the ministry of data and broadcasting (MIB).
In the letter, which has additionally been copied to the Department of Telecommunications and Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), the IBDF president has additionally sought a gathering with the MIB for an in depth deliberation on the matter.
He additional said that the interference generated by 5G, 6G providers within the C-band will influence hundreds of cable TV headends throughout the nation.
He added that the disruption in satellite tv for pc indicators will influence hundreds of thousands of shoppers throughout the nation, notably in rural India.
“Most of the houses impacted might be within the middle- or lower-income teams, for whom TV is the one, and probably the most cheap type of leisure, data dissemination and training out there,” he said.
The IBDF president contended that compromising the C-Band spectrum, being utilized by the printed trade, will not be possible for the reason that spectrum utilized by the satellites is an orbitally designated spectrum and isn’t owned by the federal government of India for auction. He added that the frequencies for every orbital location are coordinated by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and allocable by respective satellites.
“The Govt of India by way of WPC is a signatory to the ITU and is required to observe all procedures for coordination of all orbital areas and all frequencies used at every respective orbital location. Govt of India can’t allocate the customers which use these satellite tv for pc bands,” he added.
Madhavan said that the federal government can’t allocate the customers who use these satellite tv for pc bands because the satellite tv for pc operators enroll the customers for using the satellite tv for pc beneath the Open Skies insurance policies for using C-band.
“The contracts are signed straight between the broadcasters/ teleport operators and are paid for in international trade. The Govt of India can’t both encroach on the frequency of those ITU coordinated satellite tv for pc operators, nor assign any particular customers who will use these frequencies,” he stated.
He additionally said that the terrestrial auction of those bands will violate ITU commitments as satellite tv for pc operators have been granted the fitting to make use of an orbital spectrum on a no-interference foundation.
Madhavan stated the broadcasting sector, in contrast to the telecom sector, doesn’t avail any unique entry to scarce spectrum.
He argued that granting frequency bands as much as 3,800 MHz for 5G/6G providers will end in over 20 Indian and Foreign satellites over India dropping greater than 60% of their out there capability.
