TRAI begins consultation process on TV broadcast audits

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) is holding a consultation exercise to determine whether the existing audit mechanism, which mandates distribution platform operators (DPOs) to cause audits of their subscriber management system (SMS) once a year, should be retained, modified, or replaced with a new mechanism.

In case the DPO-caused audit mechanism is scrapped, the regulator has asked the stakeholders to suggest mechanisms that should be adopted to ensure timely sharing of monthly subscription reports by the DPOs to the broadcasters.