TRAI releases Consultation Paper on Formulating a Digital Radio Broadcast Policy

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released a Consultation Paper on ‘Formulating a Digital Radio Broadcast Policy for private Radio broadcasters’. At present, analogue terrestrial radio broadcast in India is carried out in Medium Wave, Short Wave and VHF-II spectrum bands. VHF-II band is popularly known as FM band due to deployment of Frequency Modulation (FM) technology in this band. TRAI has initiated this consultation process in order to seek stakeholders’ comments on various issues relating to formulation of digital radio broadcast policy for private Radio broadcasters. Written comments on the consultation paper are invited from the stakeholders by 28th October 2024. Counter comments, if any, may be submitted by 11th November 2024.