Independent TV Services Disrupted for More Than 75 Days, DTH Company Yet to Resume Operations

Independent TV subscribers first faced service disruption back in June 2019 and the company is yet to resume the operations. Ever since the interruption happened, Independent TV has been providing a tentative deadline for restarting the services, but the company failed each and every time. And now, it’s been more than 75 days since Independent TV last saw a television channel on their Set-Top Box. The company made its last announcement on August 15 saying that the services might resume any day after August 21, which of course, isn’t the case. Independent TV customers are even complaining about the company’s intent towards resuming the services again. Last month, Independent TV announced that it would resume operations as ITV 2.0 and a new business model.

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Independent TV Faces Issues With Satellite Service Provider

On June 12, Antrix Corporation, which is the satellite signal provider to Independent TV disconnected services with immediate effect. The reason behind the disconnection is the non-clearance of dues from Independent TV. To recall, the DTH operator was supposed to pay Rs 15 crore to Antrix Corporation. Later on, the matter was taken to TDSAT and even Trai involved in the whole issue. TDSAT had directed Independent TV to clear the dues of Rs 15 crore with immediate effect so that Antrix Corporation can continue providing satellite signals required for resuming the operations.

Right now, we don’t have information whether Independent TV cleared the dues to Antrix Corporation or not, but the DTH operator promised to resume services by August 15 as ITV 2.0. Eventually, the August 15 deadline was missed as well as heavy rains in Mumbai is not allowing the engineers of Independent TV to establish a link with Bengaluru up-link facility.