Date:27/06/2006 URL: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2006/06/27/stories/2006062700391900.htm

Back Zee Turner switches off OCN channels

Our Bureau

Mangalore, June 26

Zee Turner Ltd has said that it has switched off its bouquets of 26 channels on OCN Network in Mangalore due to non-payment of huge outstanding to the company and non-signing of fresh agreement after expiry of the earlier one.

A press release by the Corporate Communications wing of the company said here on Monday that Zee Turner has been in negotiations with OCN Network for the past eight months to clear its outstanding and to sign a fresh subscription agreement declaring its accurate subscriber base. It was found that OCN had been serving many more subscribers compared to the number of subscribers declared to Zee Turner, it said.

Quoting the regulations of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, the release said if a cable operator drops a channel or bouquet of channels from his network, he is required to reduce the price of such channel/bouquet, to be charged, from his customers.

The viewers may ask for reduction in price from their monthly cable bill, if these channels are missing due to such switch off, the release added.