(8 September 2012) New Delhi: A parliamentary committee has expressed surprise at the Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Ministry’s failure to check the sources that carry non-permitted television channels other than the cable operators.
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology has said it cannot understand the reason behind the I&B Ministry’s assertion that the cable operators were to be blamed for the carriage of illegal television channels.
The Parliamentary committee has said that a document prepared by the I&B Ministry had stated, while explaining how illegal channels reach subscribers’ homes through cable networks, that the source can be broadband, internet, IPTV, mobile TV, video streaming, etc.
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