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Airtel Digital TV Q3 operating profit up amid strong subscriber growth
MUMBAI: Airtel Digital TV, Bharti Airtel’s direct-to-home (DTH) arm, continued to post operating profit for the second straight quarter amid healthy net subscription additions and a rise in ARPUs while churn rate has improved. The operating profit was at Rs 147 million in the fiscal third-quarter ended 31 December, up from Rs 33 million in the trailing three-month period. Airtel Digital TV added net 439,000 subscribers compared to a weak earlier quarter in which it grew just 55,000 new customers. “Digitisation and the festive season helped us grow our subscriber base in the third quarter. »»»
Airtel digital TV bags ‘Product of the year 2012′ award
Airtel digital TV (HD), the DTH service by Bharti Airtel has been recognized as ‘Product of the year 2012’, following an independent survey conducted by the leading research firm, AC Nielsen. Product of the year is an internationally recognized standard that celebrates, champions and rewards the best innovations in retail basis feedback of consumers. Commenting on the accolade, Shashi Arora, CEO- DTH/ Media, Bharti Airtel, said, “We are honored to have received this recognition. For us, at Airtel, the genesis of all our innovations lies in the requirements of our customers. Therefore, this »»»
New tools for kids to beat examinations
BANGALORE: This is the digital age and a fair number of youngsters live, talk, breathe and study in digital formats. This behavioural change has attached prominence to E-learning all over the world and Bangalore is no exception. E-learning has evolved as a new tool to beat the exams and keep yourself one step ahead of your fellow students. City Express takes a look into a variety of tools available in the market to deal with examinations. One of the most talked about tool introduced recently by Airtel Digital TV, the DTH service by Bharti Airtel, is the launch of iExam — An interactive service »»»
Airtel Digital TV starts service for competitive exams preparation
NEW DELHI: Direct-to-home service provider Airtel Digital TV today launched an interactive service — iExam –designed for students preparing for competitive examinations. “Till now television was only a medium of entertainment, but with the launch of iExam it has transformed into a virtual tutor for students at home. iExam will give students the real-time experience of taking practice tests and compete with fellow students,” Bharti Airtel CEO, DTH and Media, Shashi Arora said in a statement. This service will enable students to prepare for competitive exams from their home »»»
DTH industry seeks tax sops
NEW DELHI: The direct-to-home (DTH) platforms have made a strong plea for doing away with the entertainment tax levied by the states and the 10.3 per cent service tax levied by the Centre. The DTH Operators Association of India has said that the entertainment tax is unethical as only the broadcasters or those who generate programmes should be taxed. Harit Nagpal, President of the Association, told indiantelevision.com that the entertainment tax varies from state to state and the average percentage was around 10 per cent. Nagpal, who is MD and CEO of Tata Sky, said all the DTH players have to pay »»»
Cable operators chafe at mandatory digitization
INDORE: At a time when cable operators in the state are working hard to woo their subscribers to shell out more under the new tax regime, another issue has started haunting them. A recent amendment to the Section 4A of the Cable Regulation Act, 1995 legalizes an ordinance issued in October this year for implementing mandatory addressable digitization (MAD) throughout the country in phased manner beginning from June 30 this year. Simply put, digitization means they will have to make heavy investment in buying equipment to switch to new technology. By rough estimates, there are nearly 5,000 cable »»»
Airtel Digital TV Q3 net loss widens 10% to Rs 1.96 bn
MUMBAI: Airtel Digital TV’s net loss widened in the fiscal third quarter but subscriber additions stayed competitively strong in a slowing environment. The DTH arm of telecom major Bharti Airtel posted a net loss of Rs 1.96 billion for the quarter ended December compared to Rs 1.8 billion in the trailing quarter. The net loss in the third quarter of the previous fiscal was Rs 1.2 billion, while the total loss from Airtel’s DTH business for the financial year ended March 2011 stood at Rs 5.18 billion on a revenue of Rs 7.7 billion. For the first nine months of this fiscal, net loss was »»»
