Though TV viewership surged during lockdown, subscribers deleted channels from their package to cut costs
The TRAI's recent effort to micromanage India's television industry will end up hurting everyone - consumers, broadcasters and distributors
At present, DTH or cable TV operators provide only 100 channels for Rs 153. Now, cable operators will have to provide 200 channels for Rs 153
It also said there is no need to mandate physical verification at regular intervals as it will incur a huge cost to the DTH operators and inconvenience to the consumers
A change in the way DTH homes are calculated shows that over 18 million homes are missing. Why does this cause so much joy?
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Consumers must have a choice... and interfering with their freedom is a violation of regulatory framework, says R S Sharma