Andrew Bonwick
Vice President of Product Development at Relm Insurance
Madhav Sheth
CEO of Ai+ Smartphone
Stephen Rose
CEO Render Networks

The new Trai tariff regime has brought a lot of changes in the industry, and the most notable of them all is the flexibility to choose your own channels and pay only for them and nothing extra. All the DTH service providers are offering the choices of pay channels, FTA channels and channel bouquets to the subscribers from which they will be able to curate their customised subscription. However, although we are getting these choices from the service providers, there are some in the playing field who seem to be going in the opposite of the stream in this regard. The provider that we are talking about is Dish TV. We had heard about Dish TV implementing a lock-in period for its subscribers in the case of sports channels, but now we have information telling us that the lock-on period might have extended to other channels as well.

Dish TV 30-days Lock-in Period on Pay Channels
Only a few days back, Dish TV had introduced seven days lock-in period for all its sports channels. Meaning that once the subscriber makes his choice regarding the channels and buys it, then he or she won’t be able to change it for at least another week. However, now a lot of channels on the Dish TV website seem to be displaying a lock-in period, and to the disappointment of users it is not limited to seven days, but the lock-in period is 30 days for these channels.