Updated with key performance indicators from quarterly report Despite sagging revenues in the quarter ended December 2009 on account of its “bold, new” Simply Reliance tariff plans for its mobile subscribers, ... Continue_Reading

Updated with graphs from a company presentation On its way to profitability, Essel Group owned DTH company Dish TV lost momentum and yielded to rising expenditure in the quarter ended December ... Continue_Reading

Average revenue per user, the performance indicator that reveals how much a telco earns from a subscriber, fell by Rs. 94 for the largest cellular operator in India Bharti Airtel ... Continue_Reading

Sun TV Profits Up 35% An exceptional quarter for broadcaster Sun TV Networks Ltd whose revenues are up sequentially by 45.88 percent for the quarter ended December 2009 to Rs 3.95 billion. EBITDA ... Continue_Reading

DTH company Dish TV, owned by the Essel Group, has informed the BSE that it is raising $100 million from the issue of 117,035 global depository receipts (GDRs, with each ... Continue_Reading

For the quarter ending September 2009, top telecommunications provider Bharti Airtel has reported a net profit of Rs. 23,210 million, up 13.42% from the same quarter last year but 7.78% ... Continue_Reading

Advertising revenues continued to pour into regional broadcaster Sun TV Network’s channels through the quarter ended September 2009, with the company reporting a sequential rise of 8.98% in ... Continue_Reading

The Indian telecom regulatory body TRAI has released a quarterly report on the statistics and performance of service providers in the telecommunications and internet markets. The report for April-May-June is ... Continue_Reading

DTH Service provider Dish TV and Indiatimes 58888 have partnered to offer previews of the latter’s VAS services on DTH, though a service called Mobile Active. The cross-media integration allows ... Continue_Reading

Capital18 funded advertising network NetworkPlay.in has inked a deal with Airtel DTH for advertising on DTH in India. Interestingly enough, NetworkPlay CEO & MD Rammohan Sundaram told MediaNama that the ... Continue_Reading

Telecom regulatory authority of India, TRAI, is planning to introduce portability to DTH set top boxes, DNA reports. If its suggestion goes through, competition will heighten amongst players as consumers ... Continue_Reading

In March, TRAI came up with a consultation paper that would initiate discussion with DTH and IPTV operators on issues related to the sectors. We had picked out points that ... Continue_Reading