Court hearing postponed to Jan 9th 2007

According to unconfirmed reports that we are receiving it seems that the LBN Appeals Court hearing has been postponed to January 9th 2007.

We are not sure of any reasons for the postponement. But it is likely that the license has not been signed or there is something regarding the Media License.

Please keep us updated on the reasons for the postponement and any new developments regarding LBN as the days progress.

LBN in Appeals Court today (28th Nov)

LBN Cable Tv will be in courts today for their hearing. After the positive hearing that CBNSat had yesterday one can only hope that LBN will also have a positive reply today. For all to go well the TRC will have to forward the signed documents today to courts but there is still the matter of the media license.

We hope that they will be provisionally be allowed to resume transmission until the media license is granted to them.

We are unaware of the time of todays hearing and we request our fellow bloggers to update us on the result of todays hearing.

Appeals Court tomorrow (Nov 28th)

LBN is scheduled to have their Appeals court hearing tomorrow. We are unable to confirm the time of tomorrows hearing though.

The TRC license will have to be forwarded to the Appeals Court at the hearing. We hope that the authorities will not delay this any further. However we feel that even if LBN gets the TRC license they not be able to resume transmissions until the media license is also granted.

Please keep us updated on the latest developments regarding LBN as the days progress.

Another license required

According to a report in The Sunday Times Financial Times yesterday the TRC license for LBN has been submitted to the President for approval last week and the TRC expects them to be delivered anytime now. The signed documents will have to be forwarded to Appeals Court on November 28.

However the TRC says that LBN will have to obtain the media license to begin broadcasting. So it looks like LBN customers are also faced with a long wait to watch their favourite channels.

We are not sure whether LBN has this license in the first place and we are unable to obtain confirmation. But it is unlikely that LBN has this license since we are informed that this media license refers to a license which is still being drafted and has to be approved in parliament.

Please keep us updated as the days progress on any news regarding LBN.

Unfair treatment

The LBN Magistrates court hearing held on 11th November was postponed to January 17th 2007. But even though LBN was given approval by the MoD and the President ordered the speeding up of licenses to operators who were given MoD clearance, the order has gone unheeded.

We hope the authorities will intervene and restore LBN transmissions immediately.

Please keep us updated on the latest regarding LBN as the days progress.

LBN Magistrates Court hearing today?

We are getting unconfirmed reports that LBN will be having it's Magistrates Court hearing today, however we are unable to obtain confirmation.

Please keep us updated on any developments that arise from this court hearing.

Notice from LBN......

This below notice was copied off the LBN Website

8th November, 2006

Dear Customer,

As you will see from the extracts given below from the Court of Appeal hearing on the 11th of September 2006, the paper article in the Daily News of 3rd October 2006 and the attached letter from TRC (Telecommunications Regulatory Commission), LBN has received Defense clearance and have also made payment for the license on the 11th of October. We are made to understand that the license is awaiting approval of His Excellency the President. We have requested for an appointment with His Excellency the President to ensure a speedy resolution.

Please be assured that we are doing everything possible to resume transmission as soon as possible.

We thank you for your continued patience.

MANAGEMENT OF LBN

The extracts are included in one of our previous posting. Please click here to see them.

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LBN being treated most unfairly

Judging by what happened over the past few court proceedings of LBN it is well understood that the people who started this unfair shutdown of the cable tv channels are directly influencing the outcome of these proceedings and the authorities.

LBN management has not replied to a single email that we sent them lately for reasons unknown to us.

LBN has got Defense Ministry approval. Please see below.

The President has also ordered the TRC to issue licenses to those who have obtained Defense Ministry approval. Please see below.

The TRC had sent the letter saying that the license will be issued and asked them to make the payment. Please see below

We presume LBN has made the payment and would like confirmation about that from them. But at a court hearing they were told that the media license is also required. We understand that the media license can be processed only after so called new regulations are processed and tabled in parliament. All that's fine but there are cable operators in this country who are operating without this so called new media license (eg: Comet Cable).

So to be fair why can't they just issue the TRC license and give them permission to operate till the media license is issued. It can be done but however this goes against our friends who are behind all this confusion, so they drag this on further.

So this Defense Ministry approval is also an unwanted thing since the operators who have obtained their clearance are also unable to operate still. It is obviously a tactic to delay things.

We would also like to to request the customers of LBN to put pressure on the authorities to restore their connections because we see some comments attacking the Managing Director of LBN.

We are also not happy with the response that the management is giving to us however it still does not warrant so much criticism since they are also helplessly being pulled the way the instigators want them to be pulled, however we do agree that they should adopt a tougher stance.

Please keep us updated on the latest news regarding LBN as the days progress.

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