DTH New Rules By TRAI | Tariff Plan For 130 Rupees For D2H and Cable T.V


Telecom regulatory authority of India (TRAI) is responsible for regulating and controlling all the telecommunication companies and broadcasters of India. It allows to make the functioning of the system smooth by making a common law framework for all the companies.





BROADCASTER


BROADCASTER are the companies which are owning the channels that consumers views. These companies are having around 20-40 channels under them. Some of the examples TOP broadcasters with their channels are listed below 


1. SONY ENTERTAINMENT TELEVISION

2. ZEE ENTERTAINMENT ENTERPRISE LIMITED


3. STAR TELEVISION NETWORKS





DISTRIBUTOR

Distributors or cable operators get the channels from the broadcasters and they supply or distributes to us meaning to the consumers. They act as mediator between the broadcaster and consumer or viewer. Some of the Broadcasters are as follows

1. TATA SKY 
2. DISH TV
3. BHARTI AIRTEL 



HOW DOES THE SYSTEM WORK BETWEEN BROADCASTER, DISTRIBUTOR AND CONSUMER ?

In simple terms, broadcasters such as SONY are the owner of all the channels related to SONY such as SONY SIX OR SONY MAX and these channels are supplied to Distributor such as TATA SKY or DISH TV etc and NOW these distributors also called cable operators supply these channels to us which means to YOU and ME.


Currently, distributors are deciding mostly the channels for us and the channels we view. We are not allowed to choose the channels we want to see. The cable operator makes the package of channels related to NEWS, SPORTS, and ENTERTAINMENT etc and supply to us.

At this time the distributor was the ultimate controller or Boss of the whole system because it was in the control of cable operators to which channels to make available for you, even if distributor wants, it can block the channels or choose between the channels provided by broadcaster.

For example : TATA SKY blocked all the channels of SONY 



DTH NEW RULES

Telecom regulatory of India recently announced in March 2018 itself that new DTH plan will be implemented from 29 December 2018. It was also publicly announced on 3 JULY 2018. TRAI also released the notice for all the broadcasters, distributors and all the people to adjust their hardware, software and all the things related to their functioning to be adjusted according to the new system. For this update TRAI gave 180 days to all the people related to the system and from 3 July 2018 to 29 December 2018, we exactly have 180 days. 

New Tariff Plans FOR DTH 

1. Get 100 channel in 130 rupee per month

The consumer will get 100 channels in 130 rupees for viewing. These 130 rupee is NETWORK CAPACITY FEE.

Network capacity fees in simple terms means that for making space of 100 channels for you through cable or satellite it would require 130 rupee per consumer. This only the fee of making 100 channel available on your TV.

WHICH CHANNELS ARE INCLUDED IN THESE 100 CHANNELS FOR 130 RUPEE?

These 100 channels would be FREE TO AIR which means broadcaster offer free and paid channels and for example if you are choosing 100 free channels in your list, you have to pay 130 rupee only. Note that here we are only talking about free channels, we have not included the paid channels in this list

Other option is that you have taken 100 free channels and now you want to add paid channels. This means you have to pay for paid channels on top of 130 rupees. Here one thing is fixed, we have to pay 130 rupee minimum if we want to see television irrespective of the channel which we choose.

LET’S TAKE AN EXAMPLE

You choose 90 free channels and 10 paid channels, so total cost would be calculated as 130 rupee for 100 channels and additional money for the 10 paid channels.

For example each channel is for 20 rupee, so for 10 paid channels it would be 200 rupees, so total package would be of 330 rupees. This is not the end on top of the 330 rupee, you also have to pay 18% GST on the total amount,


SO FINALLY YOU WOULD PAY = 330+59.4 = 389.4




WHAT IF I WANT MORE THAN 100 CHANNELS?

 In these 100 channel list, it is compulsory to take 26 channels of Durdarshan, so now you finally have 74 channels to choose from. Now these 74 channels can be paid or free but 130 rupee is mandatory to pay.

If you want more than 100 channels you have to buy an extra slot of channels, where for 25 channels you have to pay 20 Rupee

25 EXTRA CHANNEL = 20 RUPEE EXTRA

So if your plan has 125 channel you have to pay = 130+20=150 Rupee for network and more money will be added for the paid channels if you are taking.


ARE THESE 100 channel HD?

These 100 channels are SD NOT HD. So if you are taking a HD channel in this 100 channel list. So one HD channel will be counted as 2 channels in your list

For example if you are taking all 50 HD channel this means your 100 channel list is completed. This might be because HD channels take more satellite width and effort to bring the HD Service to consumers

CLICK TO GET TARIFF PLAN AND CHANNEL COST OF ALL CHANNELS


Maximum cost of a channel= 19 Rupee

Minimum amount of a channel= 50 paisa (0.5 rupee)

TRAI VS BROADCASTERS


TRAI RULES FOR BROADCASTERS WHICH GOT REJECTED FROMG HIGH COURT?


Broadcasters are allowed to make all the bunch of their channels and provide them at low cost TRAI suggested to make sum the all channels with individual prices and give maximum 15 % discount on the total.



ADVANTAGES TO BROADCASTER

Broadcaster approached high court and got a stay order on this decision, that’s why broadcasters can give the whole bunch of channels for cheap price such as STAR NETWORKS can provide all channels for 49 Rupee.

This is benefitting broadcasters because according to TRAI, the whole package would be of more than 500 rupees and then no one would buy that and every will buy individual channels.

This will be a big loss to broadcaster because they will only get TRP On the famous and well known channels and no everyone will buy 2 or 3 famous channels of broadcaster. So they will go in huge loss as no consumer would be seeing the shows and ads on the other channels but this is not fixed. It can change if TRAI gets stay order from Supreme Court.

NOW WHAT TO DO? Solution to DTH PLANS


OPTION 1 -Take all the 100 free channels from 250 channel list for 130 rupee. You can cleverly choose from the list. Note here 26 channels of doordarshan are fixed already. So you have to choose from 76 channels

OPTION 2- Take 90 free channels and take 10 paid channels individually so you have to pay very less which would be even less than 200 rupee

OPTION 3- Take the bundles from SONY, STAR, ZEE AND COLORS as this would be really cheap

OPTION 4- only take channels that you want to view. The less channel you will see, the less you have to pay.



Option 5: select 2 channels in every category such as sports, entertainment, music or movies. You can arrange the bundle according to your interest and budget



OPTION 6: Don’t watch T.V and save money switch to JIO TV

Option 7: Take all the free channels and keep watching it for 130 rupees


 HOW TO MAKE BUNDLE?

SD CHANNEL BUNDLES COST 


SD CHANNEL TOTAL COST


HD CHANNEL BUNDLES COST 

HD CHANNEL TOTAL COST


HOW BROADCASTERS ARE EARNING MORE?

To be honest, broadcaster are taking money from us for their channels to show ads to us. If we are paying for channel then we would not be shown the ads but broadcasters are earning from ads that we only will see and would take extra money from us.


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