Bharti Airtel became the newest entrant in the family of DTH service providers in India. Called as Airtel digital TV, the service was launched in 62 cities across the country through 21,000 retail points including Airtel Relationship Centres starting 9 October 2008. Bharti has a strong presence in telecom and broadband field so it became a natural step for them to move into dth segment. Bharti is known for quality service and strong network all across India.
MPEG4 standard with DVB S2 technology will be used by the company to provide great picture quality and sound standard. This technology is also high-definition ready and will be quite effective in delivery of complex interactive contents. The dish antenna used will be almost 20-per cent larger than normal ones keeping in mind raining conditions in India.
The price of the package is Rs. 1499/- in south India and Rs. 2499/- in north India. This price is inclusive of installation charges and set top boxes. Users will also get universal remote that will be instrumental in controlling both the set top box as well as the television. To promote their services, company has decided to waive off monthly tariff for the first six months. After that, monthly tariff will be in range of Rs. 99/ to 400/-. More than 175 channels will be available to customers.
Airtel DTH will be introducing several new features for the convenience of consumers. Chief among them are; universal remote for both TV and set top box, Interactive applications such as iMatinee for booking movie tickets, highest set top box memory which will enable more and better interactive applications, on screen account meter, high quality graphical games, intuitive search, Low battery indicator on the screen etc. The package will also include 10 World Space Radio channels and other interactive applications like iTravel, iShop, iCity and several widgets.
For further information, one can visit,
http://www.airtel.in/wps/wcm/connect/DTH/bharti+dth/home/dth-pg-homepage