January 9th, 2020 2:46 PM 0 COMMENTS

Independent TV Shuts Down Services, Total Pay DTH Operator Count Becomes 4 in India: Trai

Independent TV has been in the news for more than six months now. The DTH operator first showed signs of struggle back in June 2019 when it faced issues with the satellite provider Antrix Corporation. At last, Trai has confirmed that Independent TV has closed operations in the country which brings down the total pay DTH operators count to four- Tata Sky, Dish TV, Airtel Digital TV and Sun Direct.... Read More

January 8th, 2020 12:52 PM 5 COMMENTS

Tata Sky Continues to Be Topmost DTH Operator in July-September Quarter: Trai Data

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) today released 'The Indian Telecom Services Performance Indicators' data for the July-September quarter. The report says Tata Sky is still the topmost DTH operator in the country until September 30, 2019. However, Tata Sky needs to be worried as Dish TV is just a few thousand subscribers away from regaining its top spot which it lost to the former in the April-June quarter.... Read More

January 7th, 2020 7:34 PM 10 COMMENTS

Trai DTH Rule Changes: New NCF Channel Limit Might Not Benefit a Lot of People

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) made some reeling change on the first day of the year. As the new year knocked its way into the people’s lives, so did a new change for the DTH industry as well. Under this new notification which Trai released on January 1, the telecom regulator announced a plethora of changes which will change how the industry is functioning starting March 1. The... Read More

January 7th, 2020 6:59 AM 7 COMMENTS

Trai New DTH Rules: Does It Really Mean Lower TV Bills Or Will You Pay More?

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) dropped a significant notification on the New Year’s Day announcing the changes from the discussions and consultations paper held over the past few months. While the first half of 2019 went into the implementation of the Trai tariff regime or the National Tariff Order (NTO), the other half of it went into fixing the so-called “drawbacks” of the NTO. After a lot of... Read More

January 6th, 2020 9:25 AM 0 COMMENTS

Trai Report Reveals Good Broadband Sector Growth With Almost 2 Crore New Subscribers

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), in its monthly report, mentions the number of subscribers industry-wise for all the important industries like the broadband, wireless, DTH, FM Radio and more. The figures are very important and crucial for the industry because they help us track of the industry's health, consumer interest, companies, and other things. As per this report, for the month ending in October 2019, the broadband subscribers... Read More

January 3rd, 2020 1:04 PM 1 COMMENTS

Trai New DTH Rule Changes Reduce Multi TV Pricing Along With Other Positive Amendments

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has been working to bring some changes to the new tariff regime, which it had implemented last year. The tariff regime was one of the far-reaching things that the DTH industry had ever seen. It was a pan-India exercise for the DTH companies as they had to migrate their subscribers from the previous pricing regime to the new rules. For the subscribers as... Read More

January 1st, 2020 4:42 PM 12 COMMENTS

Trai Makes Changes to Tariff Regime: 200 Channels at Rs 130, 40% NCF for Multi TV Users and More

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has finally released the amendments to the tariff regime. Trai's new tariff regime in the broadcasting sector became effective on April 1, 2019, but TV viewers had several issues with the major one being the increased monthly bills. To address the issues with Trai tariff regime, Trai issued two consultation papers on August 16, 2019, and September 15, 2019. Trai has addressed various... Read More

January 1st, 2020 2:01 PM 0 COMMENTS

Trai Paves Path for Testing Wireline Services Before Rollout With New Consultation Paper

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has issued some major regulatory measures in 2019, which defined the face of the telecom industry. However, on the last day of the year, the telecom regulator issued another major release in which it defined the draft regulations for “Network testing before Commercial launch of services for Wireline Access Services”. It is worth noting that there had been a consultation paper on the... Read More

December 31st, 2019 7:20 PM 0 COMMENTS

Indian Telecom Industry In 2019: A Look Back On Major Events That Were the Milestones This Year

The year 2019 has been a very happening one for the Indian Telecom industry. This was a year full of ups and downs and many waves. The telecom operators were mostly locked in a battle for the large part of the year, and the effects of the data tariff war definitely spawned in the entire industry. The future of the telecom industry was also decided somewhat in this year with... Read More

December 30th, 2019 6:50 PM 1 COMMENTS

Trai Set-Top Box Interoperability Fails to Gain Support of Tata Sky, Dish TV and Other DTH Operators

One of the best things that the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has been working on this year is the Set-Top Box Interoperability. Now the concept and the idea has been in the DTH industry since the last few months, but apparently now that the idea is being vetted by the DTH operators, who are going to be the one implementing the idea, it has not seen the best... Read More

December 30th, 2019 5:19 PM 57 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio Adds 9.1 Million Subscribers in October 2019, No IUC Effect Noticed: Trai Data

Reliance Jio continues its aggressive subscriber addition even after the introduction of IUC Top-Up vouchers. Back in October this year, Reliance Jio came out with IUC vouchers and also started charging six paise per minute from the users for off-net voice calls. According to the latest Telecom Subscription Data released by Trai, Reliance Jio added a whopping 9.1 million new customers in October 2019, which was followed by other operators-... Read More

December 30th, 2019 9:48 AM 1 COMMENTS

Trai Tariff Regime: Variable NCF Will Likely Make Cable TV, DTH Subscriptions Cheaper

After making several changes in the telecom sector, Trai must be now looking to implement the changes it planned for the broadcasting sector. In April this year, the new tariff regime by Trai became fully effective, but the television subscribers were not satisfied with the changes brought by Trai. The one major change which irked a lot of users is the Network Capacity Fee (NCF); Every DTH/Cable TV connection now... Read More

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