DTH subscriber base grows 100% in seven months

Indians got another graph which grows up in the climate of graphs coming down and the graph is DTH subscriber base. The indian DTH industry has added double the number of subscribers within 7 months of period i.e March -Oct 2008 . 4.5mn connections was the number in March 2008 which now has ended with crossing 8 mn.

Worlds gigantic telecom players who went into field of DTH in recent months played a crucial game to score this factor up.  Indian consumers says whatever the product puts values in their lifes coming with a perfect package in this case, Competitive pricing and Quality service, Comfortness;they would take and support.

Zee Group’s DishTV frontrunner of DTH still holds 54% of market share by adding 4.4 million customers. The second largest player, Tata Sky Ltd, an 80:20 JV between the Tata Group and Star TV, claimed a subscriber base of 2.7 million in mid-October. CEO of Tata Sky, Vikram Kaushik, said, “We are targeting around 8 million customers by fiscal 2012″.Arun Kapoor, president,

Big TV said, “We are fully-geared to add over 400,000

subscribers every month, with an on-ground infrastructure spanning 6500 towns.”  Many players yet to come this service like Videocon Group, 19 million subscribers by 2010 is the industry’s projection.