TTT Lim­it­ed has apol­o­gised to the Na­tion­al Coun­cil for In­di­an Cul­ture (NCIC) over a tem­po­rary break­down in trans­mis­sion dur­ing a live broad­cast of Di­vali Na­gar on Oc­to­ber 26, which in­ter­rupt­ed the Op­po­si­tion Leader's speech. The com­pa­ny has pledged to air Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar's full state­ment on its so­cial me­dia pages.

UNC Chair­man Dave Tan­coo wrote to the state-owned me­dia house de­mand­ing that the full speech be aired be­fore Di­vali and on the day of the Hin­du fes­ti­val. He al­so ques­tioned whether the Op­po­si­tion Leader was pur­pose­ly snubbed as a form of po­lit­i­cal mal­ice.

In ex­plain­ing the tech­ni­cal dif­fi­cul­ties ex­pe­ri­enced, TTT said, "An au­tonomous au­to­mat­ic up­date oc­curred dur­ing the broad­cast which re­sult­ed in the con­nec­tion fail­ure. To rec­ti­fy this is­sue, the sys­tem was rolled back to its pre­vi­ous op­er­a­tional state. This suc­cess­ful­ly re­stored net­work func­tion­al­i­ty, al­low­ing us to re­con­nect to the stream. These events oc­curred be­tween 8:26 PM and 9:23 PM when our Mas­ter Con­trol Team reestab­lished the live broad­cast on tele­vi­sion. Our tech­ni­cal team con­tin­ued work in­to the morn­ing of Oc­to­ber 27, 2024, where a com­pre­hen­sive re­view of our ICT sys­tems was con­duct­ed to en­sure that no such dis­rup­tions will re­oc­cur."

TTT added that it is "un­for­tu­nate" that the Op­po­si­tion viewed it as ma­li­cious, as it was in­deed a tech­ni­cal is­sue.

TTT said that in re­dress­ing the is­sue, it will be post­ing the full un­in­ter­rupt­ed footage to its so­cial me­dia pages and web­page.

The com­pa­ny said it "sin­cere­ly re­grets this is­sue and for­mal­ly com­mu­ni­cat­ed the same to the NCIC."

The NCIC told Guardian Me­dia it is yet to de­cide if the apol­o­gy is suf­fi­cient.

Mean­while, UNC Chair­man Dave Tan­coo said it is a good start but not enough. He ques­tioned why TTT did not com­mit to broad­cast­ing the Op­po­si­tion Leader's speech on its tele­vi­sion fre­quen­cy as well.