Archive for April, 2009
Dish TV changes tagline, product mix, as DTH competition grows
Source: Business Standard
Remember the commercial where Shah Rukh Khan sits on a terrace in a couch, asking the world why aren’t they replacing their cable connection with Dish TV? It’s gone now. Dish has dumped its wish karo tagline and will instead get Khan to plug it as a sabse zyaada provider.
Explains Salil Kapoor, COO, [...]
DTH additions dip 35%, lower subscriber spend another worry
Source: Business Standard
With a drop of over 35 per cent in subscriber additions, the fourth quarter of the 2009 fiscal delivered the lowest growth in new direct-to-home (DTH) customers in the five-player private market.
As opposed to an average gross addition of around two million in the first three quarters of the last fiscal, only around [...]
Aksh Optifibre’s icontrol IPTV introduces Time Shift feature
Source: Businessofcinema.com
MUMBAI: Aksh Optifibre’s icontrol IPTV has launched the Time Shift feature on pay channels including Sony, Sab, and Discovery along with free to air channels.
icontrol is the first IPTV provider in India to introduce the Time Shift functionality. This feature empowers viewers to better plan their viewing experience by giving the freedom to [...]
Aksh Optifibre adds time shifting capability to IPTV service
Source: ipTVnews
Indian IPTV operator Aksh Optifibre, which delivers its service ‘icontrol’ over the fixed-line networks of telcos including MTNL and BSNL, has introduced time shifting features for a number of popular pay channels, including Sony, SAB and Discovery.
The new feature enables subscribers to pause, rewind and fast-forward programmes from the past three days, with the [...]
Trai to issue DTH tariff recommendations within 2 months
Source: Indiantelevision.com
NEW DELHI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) will release its recommendations on DTH tariff regulations and other issues within two months.
“The consultation paper was issued with the motive of bringing a level playing field for the DTH operators. We will be coming out with our recommendations on DTH tariff within two months,” [...]
Lower DTH losses help Bharti beat expectations
Source: Livemint.com
Telecom company Bharti Airtel Ltd’s reported profit for the quarter ended March was slightly ahead of street expectations, but analysts weren’t enthused about the results. To start with, revenue growth was unexciting in each of the company’s business segments. Total revenues grew by just 2% and the key wireless business reported a mere 3.6% [...]
BIG TV launches Express Service to address customer queries within 2 hours
Source: PR-inside.com
• Establishes service infrastructure across 500 towns in India• Decentralizes CRM function to enhance market response time• Extends customer service timings until midnight
BIG TV, the DTH arm of Reliance ADA Group, is launching Premium Express Service across India. This is an unique after-sales service initiative from BIG TV with the primary objective to cut [...]
