In its latest move, Airtel Digital TV, the Digital TV arm of Bharti Airtel today announced a new ‘Spotlight’ channel to its subscribers. Basically, Spotlight is a Video on Demand channel that will air the best of Indian plays by popular theatre groups from across the country. Airtel Digital TV … Read More
Singtel, Warburg Pincus, and Bharti Airtel are in the initial stage of the talks to buy the 61% stake of Zee founder Subhash Chandra’s family in Dish TV, as per an ET Telecom report. Followed by this buyout, the trio will then make an offer for an additional 26% stake … Read More
With the beginning of the cricket season in India as the Indian Premier League kickstarted, the TV industry also dawned a highly optimistic outlook. Amongst there, were also the DTH companies which had been thrashed recently by the new Trai tariff regime. The chance was a good one for these … Read More
Just like the data tariff war triggered by the entry of Reliance Jio sent a wave of consolidation in the telecom industry, the new Trai tariff regime might have done something similar for the DTH industry. Previously, there were rumours of Airtel making an acquisition offer to Dish TV, but … Read More
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 … 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 … 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 … 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 … 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 … Read More
To amass more and more subscribers, telecom companies and DTH providers are using very pragmatic offers. When the allure of general, offers, discounts and cashback fades, the companies often turn to referral schemes, which although come with a higher customer acquisition cost but result in good subscriber addition since the … Read More
After a long stream of combo packs, add-on packs, recommended packs the DTH operators are coming up with a new kind of offering for the subscribers of their services who are migrating to the new Trai tariff regime. These are the Basic Service Tier packs. Now unlike the other packs … Read More
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has said that the transition to the new tariff regime is going smoothly. However, the opinion of the public on this issue seems to be contrasting. Arvind Kumar, advisor on broadcasting for Trai has said that the regulator has not received many complaints … Read More
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