Comments on: Airtel launches it’s DTH service

By: sadikali

sadikali — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:25:32 +0000

…they dont show peace tv or qtv cos they are afraid of showing truth to people who would then join islam

By: DR zk lodi

DR zk lodi — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:40:42 +0000

when airtel will start showing QTV/Peace tv /other islamic chaneels on its network??.if it is done , the wiewership of airtel alone will be more than the total wievership of all channels.

By: farhan gaziani

farhan gaziani — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:34:04 +0000

because we live in a pseudo secular country where all faiths are allowed to be practised except islam …they dont show peace tv or qtv cos they are afraid of showing truth to people who would then join islam

By: Shaikh M I

Shaikh M I — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:30:18 +0000

We want to know whether Airtel – Big TV ,DTH is having any Islamic channels like Q TV , Peace TV , Saudi Arabia TV for Muslim vtewers .

By: amolpatil2k

amolpatil2k — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:04:44 +0000

@Vivek, TV dramas are called soaps because soaps require constant ads. Many of us tend to change our brands on whim. Soaps themselves, keep changing. I would call that a tough market.

DTH, or any other proprietary service can never be a tough market. This is the reason, they happen in sequence. Tata Sky has to be tops so it lets Dish TV do all the groundwork, then comes in and captures the cream, then lets BigTV, Airtel, D2H fight it out for the remaining spoils.

Cable too is proprietary because there is no choice, you have to eat what the service would give you.

In developed countries, competitors offer free STB, DVR etc if you switch. In poor countries, you are stuck. And even there, you cannot really change every month.

The only hope is multi megabit affordable internet access because the fight really is all about the last mile. Internet access is not just interactive, it is the only OPEN last mile.

By: Vivek

Vivek — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:18:23 +0000

I used to do content acquisition for Tata Sky until 2 weeks ago. Let me add my 2 cents to this business. This is an extremely tough business to be in. Look at Dish TV’s stock price. No matter how many widgets you provide, it ultimately comes down to your channel offering.

Wait till digital cable picks up, DTH will have a tough run.

Vivek

By: Munim

Munim — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:25:20 +0000

Nice.. interactive features sound interesting..
but it will be really cool if a DTH provider provides you with bundled internet connectivity.