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Pakistan's electronic media watchdog has started a crackdown against the illegal provision of about 2.5 million Indian Direct-to-Home (DTH) services in the country's major cities ahead of its plans to award official DTH licences to investors.
"Already around 3,000 DTH equipments have been seized in Lahore and Islamabad but the major illegal connections are in Karachi," Fakharuddin Mughal, a spokesperson of Pakistan Electronic Media Regulation Authority (PEMRA) said.
The crackdown comes as PEMRA is preparing to award official DTH licences to Pakistani investors next month.
"This illegal business is worth around USD 150 million annually. Approximately this amount is earned by Indian DTH services and their agents in Pakistan annually from our market," Mughal told PTI.
"The money was moved illegally from Pakistan to Dubai as license and subscription fees by the agents/operators in the country who illegally market and sell Indian DTH services like Tata Sky, Sun Direct, Reliance, Videocon, Dish TV etc," PEMRA's Director General Licensing Wakeel Khan said.
"According to a rough estimate there are around one million to 2.5 million users of illegal Indian DTH services in Pakistan most of them concentrated in the big cities like Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad," Wakeel said.
Pak starts crackdown against illegal Indian DTH services | Business Standard News
"Already around 3,000 DTH equipments have been seized in Lahore and Islamabad but the major illegal connections are in Karachi," Fakharuddin Mughal, a spokesperson of Pakistan Electronic Media Regulation Authority (PEMRA) said.
The crackdown comes as PEMRA is preparing to award official DTH licences to Pakistani investors next month.
"This illegal business is worth around USD 150 million annually. Approximately this amount is earned by Indian DTH services and their agents in Pakistan annually from our market," Mughal told PTI.
"The money was moved illegally from Pakistan to Dubai as license and subscription fees by the agents/operators in the country who illegally market and sell Indian DTH services like Tata Sky, Sun Direct, Reliance, Videocon, Dish TV etc," PEMRA's Director General Licensing Wakeel Khan said.
"According to a rough estimate there are around one million to 2.5 million users of illegal Indian DTH services in Pakistan most of them concentrated in the big cities like Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad," Wakeel said.
Pak starts crackdown against illegal Indian DTH services | Business Standard News
