NEW DELHI: Aurangabad Satellite Cable Service Centre has been directed by the Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal to pay a part of its dues to MSM Media Pvt Ltd and to negotiate the terms of a new interconnect agreement.

In his order, member B B Srivastava also asked the MSO to submit within two days the SLRs in respect of the six areas that continue to be under analogue transmission.

Adjourning the matter to 1 August 2016, the Tribunal said he MSO “would be well advised to pay at least a part of the respondent's dues for productive negotiations and interconnect agreement.”

When the matter was taken up on 18 May 2016, it had been adjourned for a week to allow the parties to renegotiate the terms of interconnect agreement and were asked to work out an interconnect agreement on mutual terms.