Meanwhile, during proceedings TataSky, a 80:20 venture between Tata and Star India, contended that its DTH service had limited capacity and could not take all channels of Zee-Turner.
“We could not expand our capacity due to technical restrictions as the recently-launched satellite of ISRO failed,” TataSky counsel Ramji Srinivasan said, adding it left DTH operators with limited transponders capacity only. However, Zee-Turner counsel Maninder Singh opposed this, claiming TataSky had more space than the declared capacity.
On this, the tribunal directed Trai to look the technical aspects of DTH, regarding physical limitation of transponders.