Tata Sky on Monday added three channels including Eurosport HD, Zee Biskope and 1Sports to its platform with the company making the channels free for the first 10 days to all users. According to the data available on Tata Sky, the channels will be charged between Rs 0.10 to Rs 6 exclusive of taxes post the 10 day period. It has to be noted that Eurosport was earlier known as... Read More
It has been more than a month since the implementation of Trai National Tariff Order 2.0 by DTH operators. However, the NTO 2.0 by Trai failed to get a proper response from Cable TV operators- even the major ones. For instance, Hathway which is one of the popular Cable TV service providers in the country is yet to implement the new rules by Trai. Similarly, other Cable TV operators like... Read More
Tata Sky announced that the users who have subscribed to Sony Happy packs would be receiving credits on their Tata Sky account due to the broadcaster discontinuing three of its channels. The Direct-to-the-Home (DTH) operator noted that the company was unable to “incorporate the reduced prices of the impacted Sony packs and corresponding Tata Sky packs" in its systems due to COVID-19 lockdown. The broadcaster effective March 31 had discontinued... Read More
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) in November 2019 announced its recommendations on the platform services (PS) offered by Direct-to-home (DTH) operators which included capping of such services. In its recommendations, the authority suggested that the platform services be limited to 3% of the total channel carrying capacity of an operator and to a maximum of 15 service channels. While the industry opposed the recommendations from Trai, several months... Read More
Dish TV, which already made four service channels available for free on its platform during the lockdown, is now providing another pay service channel at no extra cost. However, there's a catch. Existing Dish TV users who are making a long-term recharge of at least three months will be eligible for free 'Cine Active' channel worth Rs 60. Furthermore, the country's second-largest DTH operator also made slight changes to its... Read More
India has been in lockdown since March 24, 2020. The original date to lift the lockdown and resume normal activities was April 14, 2020. But now, PM Modi announced that the lockdown would be future extended to May 3, 2020. This has caused some unrest between the citizens who are not getting the opportunity to socialise. To ease the pressure of psychological stress in the minds of people due to... Read More
The most famous and lovable DTH operator of India, Tata Sky has announced 10 channels for free until the national lockdown period. Since the threat of COVID-19 was not neutralised in the first phase of lockdown, the government extended the lockdown period until May 03, 2020, to combat the deadly virus. With the announcement, Tata Sky will encourage its subscribers to stay at homes and enjoy the free interactive services.... Read More
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on Saturday announced that all Set-Top Boxes (STB) in India must be interoperable. The authority said that the Direct-to-Home (DTH) providers as well as multi-system operators (MSO) would be given six months from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) notification to facilitate the service. Crucially, it was said that the interoperability would be permissible within the DTH segment and within cable segment... Read More
The leading DTH service company of India, Tata Sky, keeps on rolling out attractive packages for its customers in regular intervals. But earlier, it wasn't like this though. People at every nook and the corner of India had only one complaint from the DTH company; that it was too expensive for a middle-class family. Even the most average of recharge packs used to cost a lot, and you would not... Read More
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has been in talks with industry stakeholders for a while to bring Set-Top Box (STB) interoperability to India. Right now, the STBs offered by Cable TV operators are non-interoperable, meaning the same STB cannot be used across different service providers. However, the STBs of DTH operators comply with the license conditions to support Common Interface (CI) module based interoperability. But Trai states that the... Read More
Maharashtra Cable Operators Federations (MCOF) have directed all the Cable TV operators to downgrade their customers pay pack to free to air (FTA) pack if the payments are not being received. Since the lockdown period, cable operators have been relying on digital modes to collect their default payments. However, as per the reports, nearly 80% of payments have not been credited in cable operators accounts which is creating hassle in... Read More
With the Dish TV’s pay later service, you can get your subscription extended and conveniently pay for it at some later stage. The move seems to be inspired by the offer Tata Sky rolled out a few days back which allowed customers to avail emergency credit service. This offer by the DTH company will enable the subscriber to obtain a kind of loan/credit for his/her subscription, which can be paid... Read More
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