Bharti Telemedia To Launch DTH Operations by Q4 2007-08

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

  • Received Letter of Intent to launch services
  • Services to be launched nationally
  • Company to set up state-of-the-art infrastructure for uplinking and broadcast

NEW DELHI – Bharti Telemedia, a subsidiary of Bharti Airtel Ltd., today announced that it plans to launch the Direct To Home (DTH) [satellite TV broadcast] services by the last quarter of FY 2007-08. The company has received the Letter of Intent (LoI) for commencing its DTH services from the Union Ministry of Information & Broadcasting.

Announcing the development, Mr. Manoj Kohli, President & CEO, Bharti Airtel Ltd, said, “The launch of DTH services will add tremendously to our existing bouquet of integrated telecom offerings. We will be deploying world-class technology and infrastructure to offer the best in class DTH services to our customers.”

The DTH services will be launched nationally by the company. Towards this, the company is setting up state-of-the-art infrastructure near Gurgaon (Haryana) for the purpose of uplinking and broadcast.