(13 December 2012) MUMBAI: There could soon be caps on market shares of multi-system operators (MSOs) and local cable operators (LCOs) in a city, district, state and the country.
The Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Ministry is keen that competition emerges in some states where monopolies have got created in the absence of any market share regulations and such monopolies do not form in other states, through reasonable restrictions on MSOs and LCOs.
The Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Ministry on Thursday asked the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) for its views on imposing of restrictions to prevent monopolies and the measures to prevent monopolistic operations by MSOs and LCOs.
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