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There are 4 pay-for-use DTH service providers and one free-to-air service provider (DD Free Dish) in India. [1]As of 30 September 2024, there are 59.91 million active DTH subscribers, in addition to the subscribers of state-owned DD Free Dish, in the country according to Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).
The service acquired 1 million subscribers within 90 days of launch, the fastest ramp-up ever achieved by any DTH operator in the world. [7] d2h (formerly Videocon d2h) launched its services in June 2009. The total number of DTH subscribers in India rose from 1.5 million in 2005 to 23 million in 2010. [8]
India currently has seven major DTH service providers and a total of over 23 million subscriber households in 2010. [20] These are Dish TV (a ZEE TV subsidiary), Tata Sky, Sun Network owned 'Sundirect DTH', Reliance owned BIG TV, Bharti Airtel's DTH Service 'Airtel Digital TV' and the public sector DD Direct Plus.
As of December 2012, India had roughly 54 million DTH subscribers. DTH does not compete with CAS. [citation needed] Cable TV and DTH are two methods of delivery of television content. CAS is integral to both systems in delivering pay channels. Cable TV is through cable networks and DTH is wireless, reaching direct to the consumer through a ...
Tata Play is the largest DTH service provider in India. [2] As of March 2023, according to TRAI Tata Play serves 21.3 million subscribers which is 32.65% of total DTH users in India. [2] Tata Play entered into an agreement with French firm Vantiva to supply 4K set top boxes from early 2015. [3] The company was formerly known as Tata Sky. [4]
India's telecommunication network is the second largest in the world by number of telephone users [3] (both fixed and mobile phones) with over 1.19 billion subscribers as of September 2024. [4] It has one of the lowest call tariffs in the world enabled by multiple large-scale telecom operators and the ensuant hyper-competition between them.
Sun Direct is a joint venture between the Astro Group of Malaysia and the SUN Group of India. Sun Group entered into an MoU with the Astro group on 27 January 1997, when Aircel was not in existence. But, since the government of India did not allow the use of KU band transponders for DTH services, the project was put on hold, the firm said in a ...
Independent TV Limited is a DTH Licensee of the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting (MIB), Govt of India. This license has been renewed on 19 June 2019 for a further period of six (6) months, like for all other DTH licensees in India today, and is valid till 31 December 2019.