Important 35 million DTH subscribers inactive, 7 private channels not operational till March 2015: TRAI

[Deepu]

Almost 34.90 million subscribers of direct-to-home (DTH) operators in India were inactive as against the total registered subscriber base of 76.05 million until the quarter ending March this year.

Citing the number of subscribers across platforms such as DTH, television, multi-system operators (MSOs), internet, broadband, radio etc, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) in its latest quarterly report revealed the following:

DTH

The number of active subscribers of the six private DTH operators namely Tata Sky, Dish TV, Videocon d2h, Airtel Digital, Sun TV and Reliance Digital TV stands at 41.15 million.

TELEVISION CHANNELS

Seven television channels are still not active, if one goes by TRAI’s quarterly report, according to which the Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Ministry had said that it had cleared 829 private television channels by 31 March, 2015. It may be recalled that Minister of State for I&B Rajyavardhan Rathore had yesterday told the Parliament that a total of 822 channels had been cleared.

Of these channels, there were a total of 245 pay channels as reported by the broadcasters as on 31 January, 2015.

Indian Television Dot Com | 35 million DTH subscribers inactive, 7 private channels not operational till March 2015: TRAI

 

[Technoglitch]

So the inactive subscribers are half the value.

 

[Prateek Marwadi]

it is an assumption. for e.g. - if i used adtv n then i moved to dish tv. so i ll b counted in both the ways. in inactive status also as i used adtv n in active status also bcoz i m using dish tv.
so its not based on the current situation. also how it cud b possible that half of the subscribers r inactive now means they have stopped watching the tvs.