All Entries Tagged With: "A-La-Carte"
Videocon d2h offers A-la-carte for its viewers
Mumbai, Maharashtra, January 20, 2011: Videocon d2h, the fastest growing DTH service provider has launched A-la-carte services for its customers. These A-la-carte channel offerings will allow customers to choose and pay for the channels they want to watch in any category. Videocon d2h have launched services keeping the needs of the growing market in mind. Videocon d2h has maximum number of channels & Services with a Very strong regional content for their specific Audiences along with all the sports channels on board. Videocon d2h feels that the consumer has the right to choose the channels »»»
DTH firms may miss à la carte deadline
Customers seeking greater choice over what they watch and how much they pay for it may have to wait for some more time with mostdirect-to-home (DTH) and Internet protocol TV companies set to miss a 1 January deadline for offering an à la carte option. A July 2010 order by the regulator Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) said that all digital platforms must offer consumers the choice of paying only for channels that they wish to watch. Currently, companies offer bouquets or bundled channels priced as a package. DTH companies, which together serve around 29 million households, cite technical »»»
Come Sept, pick and choose DTH channels
Come September and subscribers of DTH services would be able to pick and choose the channels they want to watch but have to pay a minimum of Rs 150 per month for a bouquet of channels of their choice. In its tariff order for 2010, broadcast regulator TRAI also included provisions to protect the consumers from rise in rates, like no increase in subscription charges in the first six months of enrolling. The rates can, however, be decreased in those six months and the consumer can opt for any other service provided by the DTH operators. The composition of the bouquet of channels should also be the »»»
Trai caps a la carte channel price to 35% of non-Cas areas
MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has capped the a la carte pricing of channels for addressable systems at 35 per cent the cost in non-Cas areas, a step that will bring down the content cost for DTH, digital cable and IPTV operators. The earlier rate for DTH operators was fixed at 50 per cent of pricing in non-Cas areas. In its new tariff order today, applicable to all broadcasting and cable services provided to subscribers through addressable systems, Trai said that every broadcaster shall offer all its pay channels on a la carte basis to distributors of TV channels, and »»»
DTH operators oppose suggestion to offer channels at a-la-carte rates
Prominent Direct-To-Home operators on Monday opposed any suggestion to offer television channels on their platform at a-la-carte rates. Responding to Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s supplementary consultation paper on tariff related issues, DTH operators have opposed the suggestion of offering TV channels on their platform at a-la-carte rates as against the current system of offering them in various packages or bouquets. TRAI had floated the consultation paper in December last year, seeking comments of DTH operators and broadcasters on it (issue of a-la-carte rates is one of the issues »»»
