kolkata if you havent made the cable shift yet you have six more days to do sothe calcutta high court on thursday vacated a stay order of a telecom regulatory authority of india trai notification that mandated a switchover to an la carte system of channel subscription and a new revenuesharing arrangement between multisystem operators msos the court also ruled that the new system will take effect from the midnight of february 6on wednesday trai had moved court seeking to vacatethe stay on its notification that had been obtained by a group of 80 cable operatorsthe court has also asked cable operators to enter into an agreement with their msos by february 7 and endorsed the revenuesharing prescribed in trais notification dated march 3 2017with the path cleared for the switchover to la carte msos and cable operators swung into action but with a week to go for the curtains to come down on the old package system the possibility of a blackout of pay channels looms large more than 80 of kolkatas cable homes including dth subscribers have not yet chosen their pay channelsextended deadline msos expect lastminute rushsome msos are planning to offer a truncated package to subscribers in case they dont specify their choice of pay channels within the next six days instead of completely switching off the pay channels the rest have left it to the discretion of cable operatorsthe court on thursday observed that the threat to cable operators livelihood was not real since they have a fair share of the rs 130 which is the basic charge for freetoair channelswe expect a lastmoment surge in response said suresh sethia director of mso siticable more than half of our subscribers are yet to respond so we have devised a package of 1520 pay channels other than the freetoair channels for them this is an assortment of news entertainment movie and sports channels to cater to all tastes we expect a 100 response from subscribers by february 7cable operators were unhappy with the new revenuesharing arrangement which they felt would make it difficult for them to serve customers they were also wary of being able to provide subscribers with their chosen pay channels within a week according to the trai notification msos and operators will have a 5545 share of the rs 130 that all subscribers must pay broadcasters will have an 80 share of the price of pay channels with the remaining 20 being split between msos and operators the revenuesharing could have been more favourable for operators many will find it difficult to survive unless their msos agree to a bigger share said tarak saha who heads an operators organizationsome msos such as mrinal chatterjee of mso bengal broadband endorsed the operators claims saying they were the lastmile connect between them and the subscribers and deserved a better deal appearing for mso hathaway biswaroop bhattacharya said it was giving a 60 share of revenue to cable operators siticable said it was open