Airtel Digital TV subscribers can now choose the wide-range of regional top-up plans introduced by the DTH operator. On the whole, Airtel Digital TV has launched 14 regional top-up plans across various languages like Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Bengali among others. The prices of these local top-up plans start at just Rs 7 and it goes all the way up to Rs 135 per month. Do make a note that these... Read More
Sun Direct is one amongst the two DTH operators in the industry to launch full-fledged long-duration packs. In the past, we have reported that Sun Direct has started offering its DPO packs in regional languages for up to six months. However, it has changed now as the DTH operator has introduced 12-month subscription on all the DPO packs available right now. Earlier, Sun Direct allowed users to choose DPO packs... Read More
TV viewers in India will be able to interchange their set-top-boxes. This means that subscribers will be able to switch to other DTH service providers without needing to buy a new STB. This new rule will be brought into practice by the end of this year with the help of required technology said RS Sharma, Trai chairman. To ET Telecom, Sharma said, "Since last two years we have been trying... Read More
The advent of the cricket season has urged the DTH companies to get on their toes and launch offers which would increase the viewership of channels and give them more reach. Last we heard about a few offers from Tata Sky, Airtel Digital TV and D2h. However, there is yet one more offer from Tata Sky related to sports channel which has been hiding under the rock and could easily... Read More
Since the start of 2019, we have seen a lot of changes in the Indian broadcasting industry, thanks to the new tariff implementation by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai). The sector regulator asked DTH service providers to continue providing long duration packs which consumers liked a lot in the past tariff regime. But the operators are in no state to listen to Trai, except for a few like... Read More
After rainy days for the DTH providers post the introduction of the new Trai tariff regime, it seems as if the DTH providers are gearing up for a better season and this time it won’t be coming in the form of rule changes. Tata Sky and Airtel Digital TV are both providing free sports channels to the subscribers in this cricket season. In India, the Indian Premier League season is... Read More
Airtel Digital TV has started waving off NCF charges on some FTA channels, taking the battle to Tata Sky and Sun Direct as both the DTH providers already announced that they would not charge any additional charges on FTA channels. According to the new tariff regime introduced by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), DTH providers are allowed to provide 100 channels under the initial slab of Rs 130... Read More
Dish TV, India’s largest single-country DTH provider has listed new plans for winning back its customers. To recall, the service provider’s subscribers were not pleased when lots of entertainment channels went missing from Free Dish. To make up to these customers and to bring back their entertainment, Dish TV has now introduced ‘Bharat Cricket Combo’ on Dish TV and ‘Value Combo’ on D2h. These affordable new acquisition offers for cricket... Read More
It seems that Mukesh Ambani led telecom operator Reliance Jio is causing a stir in every industry it is stepping foot on. After disrupting the telecom and cellular space, now the company is planning to roll out DTH services thus hinting the other companies to put up a strong front in advance for when Reliance Jio rolls out its services. It is notable that Reliance Jio has already bought massive... Read More
DTH subscribers are still facing some issues related to new channel packs. Especially, subscribers of D2h and Dish TV complain about the lack of proper response to their queries from the operators. However, that isn't stopping D2h from launching new channel packs to its subscribers. In its latest move, Direct-to-the-home (DTH) service provider, D2h, has unveiled a wide range of HD channel packs in regional languages to boost its content... Read More
Several TV viewers are not satisfied with the broadcasting regime introduced by Trai. But slowly, things are settling down with DTH and Cable TV providers coming up with more options. Earlier today, we reported that Sun Direct has started offering long-term plans of up to six months, and now, Airtel Digital TV has joined the list. Long duration plans under the new tariff regime don't inspire confidence for many as... Read More
There's no doubt that the new tariff regime by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) is still the talk of the town. However, we have to admit that things are slowly settling down. Unlike earlier, subscribers are now at least able to view the channels which they've paid for and the FTA channels are working fine without any issues. There is still some section of users facing issues related... Read More
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