Bharti Airtel to start DTH and IPTV services

Bharti Airtel is entering the broadcasting segment with Direct-to-Home (DTH) and Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) services. It has got approval from I&B Ministry for its DTH venture.

IPTV will be launched by December 2007 in partnership with Cisco and initially limited to six cities. DTH would be launched by Q4 of 2007-08 and promoted as a mass product.

Through IPTV, Airtel could push up its broadband base as consumers get TV content along with a fixed telephone line.

For DTH, Bharti could provide advantage of lower setup cost to consumers as the set-top boxes would be manufactured by its arm, Bharti Teletech.
Bharti Airtel has also reduced its share to 40% in the DTH venture, Bharti Telemedia Ltd. to comply with FDI guidelines

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thanks for sharing..good move by Bharti.

Old News.. really old.. atleast an year.. there was another thread regarding this..

^^^^^^The link mentioned by @iMav is of Tuesday, August 7, 2007
May be Bharti has got approval from I&B Ministry for its DTH venture now. Plz mention the old thread link.

ravi_9793 said:
^^^^^^The link mentioned by @iMav is of Tuesday, August 7, 2007
May be Bharti has got approval from I&B Ministry for its DTH venture now. Plz mention the old thread link.

Yes, maybe they got approval recently but the fact is that approval is just another process in the plan and it was already decided that they would bring it out November~December.

I didn't say anything against anyone, so you don't need to waste the time trying to defend it nor am I going to waste my time searching for the other thread.

Help~Is~Here said:
I didn't say anything against anyone, so you don't need to waste the time trying to defend it nor am I going to waste my time searching for the other thread.

If cant give prove ..than plz dont claim other's thread as old one. And searching forum dont take too much time,and its not a wastage of time.May be wastage of time for U.

realx ravi the guy is just spamming chk this thread also *www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=65153

cool nice to know

offtopic : does not apply to me coz any service from airtel and bharti is costly and not affordable !!

If they bring broadband through it, will be great. Not intereested in the TV part lol.

ravi_9793 said:
If cant give prove ..than plz dont claim other's thread as old one. And searching forum dont take too much time,and its not a wastage of time.May be wastage of time for U.

Don't understand why people take things so negetively. Everyone knows that the search function in this version of vBulletin is useless and after an hour of useless searching here's your link:

*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=52185&highlight=Dish

Now, don't come back and say that it doesn't have anything of the approval. Like I said in my last post, it's just info about Airtel releasing their DTH.

iMav said:
realx ravi the guy is just spamming chk this thread also *www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=65153

You are so good at pointing fingers and misleading others. Sad man, grow up and don't be appaulingly pathetic like you are. Please stop misleading people.

@ ___ : This is technology section , so dont start fight..

@help~is~here : again your words are not ok for posting in forum.. No personal comments please.. and

@ iMAV : just dont flame anyone..

Help~Is~Here said:
Don't understand why people take things so negetively. Everyone knows that the search function in this version of vBulletin is useless and after an hour of useless searching here's your link:

*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=52185&highlight=Dish

Now, don't come back and say that it doesn't have anything of the approval. Like I said in my last post, it's just info about Airtel releasing their DTH.

First point.....you said that it is around 1 year old new.But the thread you mentioned is 5 months old.
The thread you mentioned dont cleat that bharti is going to start this service and has got approval from I&B Ministry... But this thread strickly says about bharti..not about INSAT-4B launch.
I think you understand.Please dont panic..and take it easy.

^^ Well I have a bad memory with regards to dates so is the search function bad. Like I mentioned in the last few posts, it was just about the proposed release of Airtel DTH in november and from that when I did a little research that time, found out more about it including the share percentage and not the approval, so please, let's not argue about this anymore and just move on with it..

nice info guys..thanks...lets see what MTNL does now with their IPTV service which is preety much useless.....

Thnx For Telling...

Yeah I am waiting for both Bharti and Reliance to start their DTH before getting a DTH installed at my house...
Both the companies had plans to start the service earlier but due to launch failure of the satellite(INSAT) their plans got delayed..
There is a lot of monopoly in the DTH market at the moment and after both of them launch it will become affordable..

DTH Market, prices are fine, Initial cost of installation and Setup boxes are expensive. Maybe some day cheap chinese made setup boxed hit India....

Initial cost is what I was exactly referring to...
Also 300/month is pretty high...before CAS we had areas where we used to get all channels for 150/month...
But considering the improved picture quality I am ready to pay about 225/month which seems a pretty good price..
BTW I read reports that Reliance BlueMagic(DTH) will have a monthly price tag of Rs.500!!

aks_win said:
cool nice to know

offtopic : does not apply to me coz any service from airtel and bharti is costly and not affordable !!

Sorry could not help but reply to your offtopic comment.

Airtel is costly and not affordable? Man!!

They have the cheapest GPRS service from amonst IDEA or Hutch.
Their calling plan of 10p was also one of the cheapest for atleast an year, it has only been matched by Hutch and IDEA now.

^ + they are charging for the kind of service they give. Idea can never match the kinda service Airtel provides. Hutch is good too but not as good as Airtel.

good info

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don't worry it will take another decade for them to practically launch such service.
reliance is launching iptv since 2003 but still there is no sign of iptv from their side
same with airtel wifi, iptv etc

^^ I have to disagree. The reason why IPTV has been long coming is because of the low bandwidth available. It has been the struggling point for every IPTV provider including BSNL. It's just now that higher bandwidths of upto 8Mbps are becoming a reality to the end users. But the case is different with regards to DTH.

DTH has been a long running and established technology. Infrastructure for DTH is already setup and only participants need to enter into the system, no new infrastructure needs to be added expect in cases like contact centers. So, DTH is already there, it's just a couple of new faces that you will see coming.

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I cannot quite agree with you here,
Almost all providers have the last mile capable of upto 8Mbps+.and a few config changes at provider part,voila,we can get upto 24Mbps down,without much sweating.Also as i understand almost all IPTV implemetations has mpeg4/avc capable STB,so bw problem is really eliminated..

and also remember adsl internet bw!= iptv bw..

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desitek.com said:
don't worry it will take another decade for them to practically launch such service.
reliance is launching iptv since 2003 but still there is no sign of iptv from their side
same with airtel wifi, iptv etc

Reliance and Airtel are different companies. How can you compare Airtel with Reliance. Reliance is trying to focuss more on the number and quantity of services they offer(they have power,communication companies,Cinemas,Radio channel,....... and a lot of other services but we all know how good their services are) while Airtel targets quality.If they charge premium rates for their services , quality of their services is also better than others.

leomax said:
I cannot quite agree with you here,
Almost all providers have the last mile capable of upto 8Mbps+.and a few config changes at provider part,voila,we can get upto 24Mbps down,without much sweating.Also as i understand almost all IPTV implemetations has mpeg4/avc capable STB,so bw problem is really eliminated..

and also remember adsl internet bw!= iptv bw..

I don't think you got my point. What you said is correct but what I told is that it's just become a reality in the recent past. Very few cities have 8Mbps connections and those are the only cities where IPTV has been provided. Don't dream about 24Mbps now as that is not going to be easily achievable with the kind of infrastructure available in India. Believe me, I being an ISP engineer have seen these things long coming and I know how much of a pain it has been for BT(British Telecom) to do the 24Mbps tests and finallly provide a very unreliabe 8Mbps service.

Since bandwidth issue has just been realized in the near past is why IPTV took long to come. It has no relation or similarity whatsoever to the DTH, so the point I was trying to make is that just because IPTV took longer to come doesn't mean DTH is going to take that long.

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There may be a bit of misunderstanding,i said the bw available to last mile and not the whole internet bw available to end user..
like you sync at 24M and still get only 256k effective internet and 24M to exchange/dslam (lot of bw at last mile)..I can understand the teething issues,but i was pointing that even HD channels are possible now..
well,if i read you right,i cant see why we cant implement IPTV with current infrastructure.

go to *www.saveondish.com/ and u will get a whole world of info related to dth services.

leomax said:
There may be a bit of misunderstanding,i said the bw available to last mile and not the whole internet bw available to end user..
like you sync at 24M and still get only 256k effective internet and 24M to exchange/dslam (lot of bw at last mile)..I can understand the teething issues,but i was pointing that even HD channels are possible now..
well,if i read you right,i cant see why we cant implement IPTV with current infrastructure.

I didnt say it's not possible, it's just starting to become possible is what I said. Well, it's starting to become possible because the ISP's have increased their synch rates to upto 8Mbps. And not all of them have done that and till all the ISP open up to alteast upto 8Mbps, then IPTV will be possible everywhere.

DTH ok, IPTV NO!
Thats a real bad and desperate move by Bharati.

rayne said:
DTH ok, IPTV NO!
Thats a real bad and desperate move by Bharati.

can I know the reason??