Airtel Digital TV launches pay for 10months for year

Airtel Digital TV is increasing its number of annual packages, offering discounted rates to keep its subscribers locked long term. The DTH service provider will add eight annual packages, complementing its current Super Value offer of Rs 2600. Says Bharti Telemedia vice president-marketing Sugato Banerji, "Annual packages are increasingly popular with our DTH customers as they see the benefits of price protection for a full year with the added convenience of just a one time recharge. Customers will be able to enjoy 12 months of viewing while making payment for only 10 months." "Apart from consumer benefits, the annual packages will not only bring us assured revenues for a span of 12 months, but will also help in improving our operational efficiencies," Bannerji adds. The annual packages for the new DTH customers are at three different price points - Rs 3450, Rs 4350 and Rs 5450. These will include the installation cost along with 12 months' subscription.

For existing customers, the new packages are at five different price points - Rs 1088, Rs 1265, Rs 1850, Rs 2750 and Rs 3850.

While the Super Value Pack (Rs 1088) will include Sony, Star and NDTV channels, the Economy Pack (Rs 1850) will also include the other GECs like Zee and Colors along with WorldSpace Radio.

Mega Pack (Rs 2750) will include sports channels ESPN and Star Sports. Also in the bouqet will be HBO, MGM, Cartoon Network, Discovery, Travel & Living and Pogo.

The Ultra Pack (Rs 3850) will also include Star Cricket, Zee Sports, Ten Sports, Neo Sports, and other language channels.

"Our subscriber base is nearly one million and our ARPU is in line with the market range," Banerji avers.

how to get indian tv channels in UAE, kuala lumpur, dubai, sharjah, abu dhabi, kuwayt.

how to get indian DTH tv channels in UAE, kuala lumpur, dubai, sharjah, abu dhabi, kuwayt, qatar, bahrain, doha, manama, pakistan, nepal,srilanka, singapore, malasia, bangkok,dhaka.

the india DTH coverage is limited to india territory only. but the satellites are places in such high that it can not restrict signal to scater. so by this we can catch the signal from the satellite by following ways.

first we have get the dish and setupbok STB (MPEG2) from any local dealer with Ku LNB for free to air channels such as from dd direct plus. with is the only one DTh service will provide free to air channels in india. you get a dream box any were in world it is a open source stb.

in selection of the dish we have to take alot of care because it is the most important to catch the signals. normally in india 30cm is more than sufficient but other than india we need the larg dish it depends on the distance from india.

for example to dubai it needs 120cm of dish to get full signal from india satellite. so please choose the proper dish size to get full signal. most important is clear sky view there should not be any object like building are any others objects between the dish and sky. direct shall be facing india and the satellite is INSAT 4B at 93.5c east. it is easy by adjusting it by viewing signal in STB.

for pay channels services like dishtv, sundirect, tatasky, airteldirect, Bigtv. we need to have there STB's. in genaral all there STB's are carring by the passenger from india to respective country's but it is illlegal to carry the india STB's but there is one option is by getting DREAM BOX STB.


if carry any pay service STB there will a smart card with it. by this the encrypt signal are decrypted and you can view the channels. for you have pay the monthly or yearly fee to the service providers.
now a days payments are made easy so you pay through internet.

any technical problem shall be done only in india.

but the illiagal way of geting pay channels for free is through Dream box STB. it is open source STB run in linux with internet connection you can crack the encrypted signal and watch tv for free.



Dear all,

I installed 4 types of DTH setupbox in abu dhabi and dubai.

Sundirect in abu dhabi is working fine with 180cm dish and clear sky view. still date there is no problem.

The Dish tv in dubai is working fine but the signal varies few mins but there is issue in picture quality.

TataSKy installation is high in UAE/Dubai/Sharjah because of quality.

The dth is one way communication system so there no one find from ware your accessing the satellite.

About dream box you can only access tatasky, DD direct plus and dish tv because it is MPEG2 technology.

i found it many shops in dubai/abu dhabi/sharjah. but you have to buy smart card to view pay channels.

please write comments for more details.

Bharti Airtel plans to rollout IPTV, DTH services at same time

Bharti Airtel is looking at simultaneous rollout of Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) and direct-to-home (DTH) services following the Cabinet approval on downlinking norms for IPTV Expected to be launched with in two months time. the two services will have differential priced, with DTH targeted at the mass market and IPTV for broadband (high-speed internet) users.

“We are now putting our launch (for IPTV) together. Right now, we are examining different options internally. Both the launches could be simultaneous or we could have them in phases. What is certain is that IPTV will be first launched in Delhi while DTH will be rolled out on a much larger scale,” Bharti Airtel president for Telemedia services Atul Bindal told ET.

Telemedia is Airtel’s business division that provides broadband and fixedline services to over 2.5 million customers in 95 cities. “Over the next few weeks, we will firm up our plans. IPTV will be an integral part of Airtel’s media business because DTH allows us to go wide and IPTV allows us to go deep in 6-8 top cities,” he said. On the pricing, Mr Bindal said: “IPTV sits on top of broadband. It gives me an opportunity to cross-sell and deepen my relationship with existing customers using local loop or broadband or both. My pricing for IPTV will be triple play (voice, data and video). For DTH, we’ll explore single play, double play as well as triple play and introduce it in around 5,000 towns and villages.”

DTH services are currently being offered by TataSky, Dish TV, Sun Direct and Reliance Communications’ Big TV. Asked about profitability, as none of the DTH players is currently making money, Mr Bindal said: “We don’t believe new businesses are a drag, if chosen correctly.

We are uniquely positioned to leverage the existing technological knowhow and are exploring ways and means for cross-leveraging our relationship with Airtel customers.”

Globally, IPTV is considered a niche segment as broadband access is not uniform. Industry estimates suggest that India will have around a million IPTV users by 2011 and for DTH, the number would be over 23 million.

Bharati Airtel launched DTH services in Gurgaon, haryana.

Bharati Airtel launched DTH services in Gurgaon for employees.

The DTH service — to be branded Airtel, which is also the mobile phone service brand — will be started by Bharti Telemedia Services Ltd, a group company, and run by Bharti Airtel Ltd, the mobile phone firm.All set: Atul Bindal, president of Bharti Airtel, says the rates would be similar to those of existing operators and higher than cable TV rates

“We are in a high state of preparedness to launch our DTH services. A trial launch has been done among the employees and the feedback is very good. We are putting in the last minute changes to reach the last town, and to have a footprint like the (Airtel) prepaid recharge value chain,” said Atul Bindal, president of Bharti Airtel. “We want to leverage on every bit of that (Airtel brand).”

Bharti Airtel has 923,472 outlets across India as in end-June through which it sells prepaid, postpaid, and value-added service offerings.On pricing, Bindal said the rates would be similar to those of existing DTH operators and higher than cable TV rates. DTH firms such as Tata Sky Ltd, an 80:20 joint venture between the Tata Group and Star Group; Dish TV Ltd, an Essel Group company; and Sun Direct TV Pvt Ltd, a joint venture between Chennai-headquartered Sun TV Network Ltd and Malaysia’s South Asia Entertainment Holdings Ltd, charge between Rs30 and Rs300 (exclusive of taxes) a month for the service.

“We entered the consumers’ home with voice, then it was data and broadband, now we want to give them a ‘one knock at the door experience’ with one bill and one service provider,” he said. “Airtel will be the only telco that can do and make a difference as we have the underlying technology in terms of billing and convergence. This will not be possible for a standalone DTH player.”

“Eventually the game plan for Bharti is to get into all the potential ‘telecom real estate’ and be a full scale telecom service provider. And DTH service launch by the company is one step in that direction. Arpus (average revenue per user) in DTH is much higher than the telecom,” said Alok Shende, principal consultant, Acceindia Consulting. “Bharti is readying to offer multiple services (to the consumers) after the DTH launch. It just allows a lot of creative bundling strategy to happen.”

The Airtel DTH service will use the so-called MPEG4 format for the first time in India with advanced security encryption systems, Bindal added

What is OpenTV software in Indian for DTH?

OpenTV' is a middleware for digital television (DTH). OpenTV Core software technology contains a hardware abstraction layer to enable hardware independence, TV libraries, a selection of application execution environments to create a digital television environment for set-top box.

OpenTV,use's its technologies to enable a range of interactive TV services, including multi-camera-angle viewing, gaming, interactive channels, push-VOD (Video-On-Demand ), PVR (Personal Video Recorder )and Electronic Programm Guide (EPG).

Currently openTV is used by DISHtv TATASky ans soon on SUNDIRECT. the new entries are coming with openTv like BIGtv, AirtelDTH, D2H and ETHAir

for more information click the following link
Welcome to OpenTV

Bharti Telemedia to launch DTH Operations (Airtel subsidiary)

Bharti Telemedia which is the subsidiary of bharti airtel is testing DTH signal to launch the DTH services in India. Mostly this will lunch soon this year end. DTH is with latest technology MPEG4 . Bharti Telemedia is also involved in manufacturing there DTH setup boxes.
Company to set up state-of-the-art infrastructure for uplinking and broadcast station near gurgaon, Haryana. They are tie-up with Foreign Service provider for there platform.

The launch of DTH services will add tremendously to our existing bouquet of integrated telecom offerings. We will be deploying world-class technology and infrastructure to offer the best in class DTH services to our customers.”

Bharti Telemedia To launch DTH operations by Q4 2008

For more information go for
http://www.bharti.com/117.0.html