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April 21st, 2020 11:31 AM 0 COMMENTS

IBF Seeks Government Nod to Resume Content Production for Uninterrupted Content on DTH Services

The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) on Monday announced that it has sought assistance from the government to handle the economic crisis in the broadcast sector that has emerged due to the COVID-19 situation. IBF in a letter to the Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Prakash Javadekar has put forward 18 requests which includes financial and regulatory flexibility. Further, IBF has submitted a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) in its response to... Read More

April 16th, 2020 8:52 PM 10 COMMENTS

Unlimited Data and Voice Calling Along With Free DTH Services Essential During Lockdown

India has been in lockdown since March 24, 2020. The original date to lift the lockdown and resume normal activities was April 14, 2020. But now, PM Modi announced that the lockdown would be future extended to May 3, 2020. This has caused some unrest between the citizens who are not getting the opportunity to socialise. To ease the pressure of psychological stress in the minds of people due to... Read More

April 14th, 2020 3:07 PM 1 COMMENTS

DTH and Cable TV STBs Cannot Be Interoperable Due to Technical and Financial Constraints: Trai

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on Saturday announced that all Set-Top Boxes (STB) in India must be interoperable. The authority said that the Direct-to-Home (DTH) providers as well as multi-system operators (MSO) would be given six months from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) notification to facilitate the service. Crucially, it was said that the interoperability would be permissible within the DTH segment and within cable segment... Read More

March 29th, 2020 4:39 PM 2 COMMENTS

These 4 Pay TV Channels Will Be Available for Free During Lockdown

The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) announced on Saturday that it will offer four pay TV channels free for next two months and that it will support the government's fight against COVID-19 outbreak. The announcement from IBF comes in the midst of the country being placed under 21 day lockdown due to COVID-19 with broadcasting networks facing uncertainty owing to potential impact on advertising revenues. Despite the bleak situation surrounding the... Read More

March 19th, 2020 7:05 AM 4 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel to Bring Postpaid, DTH and Broadband Services Together Under ‘One Airtel’ Plans

It has been a while since we saw a telecom operator innovating something in the market. Reliance Jio started the trend the 'Triple Play' plans in the industry, but it seems like Bharti Airtel is planning something big to tackle the Mukesh Ambani-led company. Last week, we reported the arrival of 'One Airtel' scheme under which Airtel started providing its Android TV-based Airtel Xstream Box on a refundable security basis.... Read More

March 15th, 2020 7:57 AM 1 COMMENTS

Tata Sky New Connection Prices Revised to Start at Rs 1,499

DTH operator, Tata Sky, has been tweaking the new connection prices for a while now. Last month, we saw Tata Sky discontinuing its SD Set-Top Box for a while, making users choose the HD STB only. Later on, it brought back the SD Set-Top Box and increased the prices of both SD and HD STBs. The prices of both new SD and HD connection was reduced to Rs 1,399, however,... Read More

March 13th, 2020 7:12 AM 0 COMMENTS

Tata Sky, Dish TV, D2h and Airtel Digital TV Now Have Android TV Set-Top Boxes: Which One to Choose

With the launch of d2h Stream, the top three pay DTH operators in India- Tata Sky, Airtel Digital TV and Dish TV now have an Android TV Set-Top Box on offer to the new and existing subscribers. Airtel Digital TV was the first DTH operator in India to come with a hybrid Set-Top Box based on Android TV platform back in 2017. In 2019, the company refreshed the lineup and... Read More

March 2nd, 2020 7:00 AM 4 COMMENTS

Trai Tariff Order: D2h Implements New Rules But DTH Operators Fail to Change Bouquets

Following the footsteps of Tata Sky and Airtel Digital TV, D2h became the third DTH operator to implement Trai's National Tariff Order 2.0 on its platform. Sun Direct also updated its NCF policy, but it is not in-line with new Trai rules so we might expect a change in the coming days. With this development, Dish TV remains the only DTH operator not to implement Trai's tariff regime 2020. Thankfully,... Read More

February 17th, 2020 6:05 PM 1 COMMENTS

Trai New Rules Will Again Need Some Consumer Preparedness

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has spent the last six months ideating and deliberating on the rules which govern the DTH and broadcasting sector. The Trai tariff regime which was introduced back in early 2019 faced a lot of criticism from the subscribers, and a little criticism from the stakeholders as well. Now, with the help of the stakeholders and lengthy deliberation, Trai has decided to rollout the... Read More

February 17th, 2020 6:58 AM 4 COMMENTS

Tata Sky Connection Will Become More Attractive After New Trai DTH Rules

Whenever it comes to choosing DTH operators, the choices boil down to a few names in the industry. Some popular names in the industry right now include Tata Sky, Dish TV and others namely. Out of all these DTH operators, Tata Sky has enjoyed slightly more attention in the past days, and it is also the reason why Tata Sky happens to be the top DTH operator in the country... Read More

February 12th, 2020 7:02 AM 1 COMMENTS

Differences Between Trai NTO 2.0 and NTO 1.0 for DTH Users Detailed

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) will soon implement the National Tariff Order (NTO) 2.0 for DTH and Cable TV subscribers. NTO 2.0 will bring a lot of changes and fix some major flaws of NTO 1.0, which became effective last year. Right after the introduction of National Tariff Order 1.0, a lot of DTH and Cable TV users stopped renewing their monthly subscription due to various reasons like... Read More

February 5th, 2020 10:50 AM 2 COMMENTS

Airtel Digital TV Adds Just Over 1 Lakh Subscribers in Q3 FY20; Overall User Base Reaches 16.3 Million

Airtel Digital TV, the DTH arm of Bharti Airtel, has revealed its performance report for the quarter that ended on December 31, 2019. During the quarter, Airtel Digital TV added just over one lakh new users which took its overall user base to 16.3 million as of December 31. Thanks to the Trai tariff regime, DTH operators were unable to add new subscribers, despite coming up with attractive offers on... Read More

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