{"id":1008029,"date":"2026-05-15T10:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T04:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008029"},"modified":"2026-05-15T10:27:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T04:57:56","slug":"cable-dth-vs-streaming-battle-lines-drawn-at-trai-over-fast-tv-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/15\/cable-dth-vs-streaming-battle-lines-drawn-at-trai-over-fast-tv-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Cable, DTH vs streaming: Battle lines drawn at TRAI over FAST TV rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: India&#8217;s legacy television distributors and new-age digital companies are locked in a regulatory battle over whether Free Ad-Supported Streaming Television (FAST) and Application-based Linear Television Distribution (ALTD) services should be treated like traditional television platforms, according to submissions made to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai).<\/p>\n<p>The consultation was initiated after the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting sought Trai&#8217;s recommendations in December 2025 on framing a regulatory framework for FAST services amid concerns raised by traditional cable and DTH operators over unregulated internet-delivered linear television platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: India&#8217;s legacy television distributors and new-age digital companies are locked in a regulatory battle over whether Free Ad-Supported Streaming Television (FAST) and Application-based Linear Television Distribution (ALTD) services should be treated like traditional television platforms, according to submissions made to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai). The consultation was initiated after the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting sought Trai&#8217;s recommendations in December 2025 on framing a regulatory framework for FAST services amid concerns raised by traditional cable and DTH operators over unregulated internet-delivered linear television platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008049,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008029\/revisions\/1008049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}