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Andrew Bonwick
Vice President of Product Development at Relm Insurance
Madhav Sheth
CEO of Ai+ Smartphone
Stephen Rose
CEO Render Networks
Amidst all the happenings in the broadcasting sector regarding the new tariff regime, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) today stated that almost all the Cable TV subscribers have made their choices based on the new pricing scheme that was extended to be effective from March 31, 2019. The Cable TV operators had informed Trai that almost all the consumers have exercised their plans while the remaining ones are moved to the ‘best-fit’ plans as it asked the operators to do so. The sector regulator held a meeting with local Distribution Platform Owners (DPOs), multi-system operators (MSO) and DTH players to get an update on the migration and it seems to be on the positive side. DTH players informed the Trai that nearly 43% of subscribers have exercised the channel options.
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Trai Reaches Out DPOs and DTH Players Regarding the Migration
Trai held a meeting with distribution platform owners (DPOs) on Friday, including multi-system operators (MSO) and all major DTH players, to review the progress of migration of TV viewers under the new framework. Trai Secretary S K Gupta told PTI that according to inputs received by the regulator from players, in the case of DTH services, about 43% of customers have made their channel preferences known.
“When combined with statistics for ‘best fit plan’, this number rises to 57%,” Gupta said. Friday’s meeting was attended by all major DTH companies, including Tata Sky and Airtel.
“The authority reviewed the progress of the migration with all large DPOs. As per inputs provided by DPOs, near 100% consumers of cable TV homes have been migrated to the new framework either based on options of subscribers or as per ‘best fit plan’. Among DTH service homes, over 43% consumers have already been migrated,” Gupta said.
