At the IPTV Forum 2006, AK Saxena, Member-Services Telecom Commission took great pains to explain how the work is distributed among government bodies by the Ministry of Telecom – the TRAI has the regulatory role, TDSAT is an appellate body and the Telecom Commission does the licensing. The entire process starts with the TRAI, and its decisions can either be mandatory for the government to accept, or recommendatory in nature. The final approval comes from the Telecom Commission, and disputes are settled by the TDSAT. Before the conference began, I got the opportunity to talk to AK Saxena, as we sat watching a news channel on a laptop in one of the kiosks. He is quite bullish on IPTV and believes that at the end of the day, the customer pays for value, and tariff is secondary. At a time when phone connections were expensive, he says he used to go to people with a 90 day money back option and a person who was able to talk even once a month to a family member saw value in the device, and never returned it. No one ever returned a phone. If there is value in IPTV, people will be willing to pay. I also asked him about the blogger block, and plans to control Internet access in India. He said that while three months ago, the technology to block subdomains did not exist, it is possible now. When I said that it’s possible to create another blog in a matter of minutes, he said that it’s a chase
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