Airtel Digital TV Customers Enjoy Better Options Over Tata Sky on Two Fronts

This Airtel Xstream Box is reasonably priced as well, however, Tata Sky is not offering any such product to the users at the moment. Tata Sky is providing a service called ‘Tata Sky Binge’ which provides every user Amazon Fire TV Stick Tata Sky Edition at a monthly price of Rs 249. However, users will have to return the Fire TV Stick at the end of the subscription period.

Airtel Digital TV Charging Rs 80 as NCF for Multi TV Connections

Another advantage for Airtel Digital TV over Tata Sky is the cheaper Multi TV charges. Tata Sky’s major disadvantage is the pricier Multi TV policy it has in place. In fact, Tata Sky is calling its Multi TV policy as Tata Sky Room TV service and the DTH operator is charging Rs 153 Network Capacity Fee (NCF) for every secondary connection from the customer. For example, if a customer has two Multi TV connections, then for each connection, he/she will have to pay Rs 153 NCF every month along with with the primary connection NCF charges.

On the brighter side, Tata Sky is finally allowing its users to choose different channels on secondary connections. Earlier, this wasn’t the case as Tata Sky just allowed the customers to mirror channels of primary connection on secondary connections. Even if a Tata Sky customer chooses one a-la-carte paid channel on the secondary connection, then the full Rs 153 NCF charges will have to be paid.

On these two fronts, Airtel Digital TV is ahead of Tata Sky. Also, Airtel DTH is providing better long-term channel packs to the customers. After the new tariff mandate by Trai came into effect, Tata Sky entirely removed long-term channel packs, but that’s not the case with Airtel Digital TV as it’s still providing six months and annual packs to the customers which are detailed here.