India Broadband

With the implementation of CAS in the metros in India, the DTH players are playing it aggressively in India. DISH TV recently announced their decision to slash their DTH prices by almost half.

Now, Tata Sky has an amazing new offer for new customers where they are offering 103 channels and all interactive services free of monthly rentals for six months.

This means that the customers can save around Rs. 1800 on rentals if they get a Tata Sky DTH connection now.

Customers having multiple television sets can save more. Even Reliance has said that they would enter the DTH market with their Blue Magic service by the middle of next year.

Tata Sky said that their ‘Free Television Viewing for 6 months’ promotion is valid only in New Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata between Dec 28, 2006 and Jan10, 2007. Customers would be required to pay the setup and installation fee which comes to around Rs. 4000 per television set.

Customers are also waiting to get their hands on the MTNL provided IPTV service.

I recently read somewhere talking about these new packages mentioned in a local newspaper. We cannot confirm the accuracy of these packages though:

The plans according to a local paper from 1st January 2007 are -
Home 250 – 1GB limit, 90 paisa per MB over the limit.
Home 500 – 2.5GB limit, 80 paisa per MB over the limit.
Home 1000 – 5GB limit, 80 paisa per MB over the limit.
Home 1800 – 10GB limit, 70 paisa per MB over the limit.
Home 3300 – 20GB limit, 70 paisa per MB over the limit.
Night Unlimited on all Home plans except Home 250 is from 8 PM to 8 AM now.
There is no mention of the Home 900 UL plan.

Business 700 – 4GB limit, 80 paisa per MB over the limit.
Business 1200 – 8GB limit, 80 paisa per MB over the limit.
Business 3000 – 20GB limit, 50 paisa per MB over the limit.
Business 5000 – 35GB limit, 50 paisa per MB over the limit.
Business 9000 – 75GB limit, 50 paisa per MB over the limit.

Users are now more interested in knowing the status of Home 900 UL package. However, getting over 1mbps speeds on these cheap packages at night time is still a very good deal.