Digital TV News: Airtel Digital TV

Irdeto to secure content on Airtel’s Digital TV platform
Sep 15, 2018 – Irdeto has partnered with Bharti Airtel to secure all content offered on Airtel’s Digital TV services. As part of the partnership, Irdeto will deploy its security solutions to secure the linear channels offered on the STB and the content offered on Airtel’s hybrid Android TV platform.
News categories: Irdeto, Airtel, Doug Lowther, Sunil Taldar, Android TV, Content Protection, Digital TV, India, Satellite, Set Top Box

Tata Elxsi to build software for Airtel's Internet TV STB
Sep 14, 2018 – Tata Elxsi has announced that it has extended its partnership with Airtel’s DTH service arm – Airtel Digital TV. As part of this, Tata Elxsi will build the application software for the company’s hybrid set-top-box, Internet TV.
News categories: Tata Elxsi, Airtel, K P Sreekumar, Sunil Taldar, Digital TV, IBC2023, India, Middleware, Satellite, Set Top Box

Airtel Digital TV adds 479,000 subscribers in 2Q 2018
Jul 26, 2018 – Bharti Airtel has announced results for the quarter ended June 30, 2018. The company had 14.646 million DTH customers at the end of the period. Net customer additions for Digital TV during the quarter were 479,000.
News categories: Bharti Airtel, Digital TV, India, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

BARC India partners with Airtel Digital TV for Return Path Data
Mar 7, 2018 – BARC India has tied up with Airtel Digital TV to include its subscriber homes in the BARC India Return Path Data (RPD) Panel. This partnership will provide fillip to BARC India’s plan of scaling up panel homes to multiples of the mandated 50,000.
News categories: BARC India, Airtel, Romil Ramgarhia, Sunil Taldar, Advertising, Big Data, Digital TV, India, Satellite, Set Top Box

Airtel Digital TV adds 416,000 subscribers in 4Q 2017
Jan 18, 2018 – Bharti Airtel has announced results for the third quarter ended December 31, 2017. At the end of the year, DTH had 13.9 million customers, up 10.7% year-on-year. Net customer additions for Digital TV during the quarter were 416,000.
News categories: Bharti Airtel, Digital TV, India, Satellite, Subscribers

Airtel Digital TV adds 207,000 subscribers in 3Q 2017
Oct 31, 2017 – Bharti Airtel has announced results for its second quarter ended September 30, 2017. DTH had 13.5 million customers at the end of the period, up 9.0% year-on-year. Net customer additions for the quarter were 207,000.
News categories: Bharti Airtel, India, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Airtel Digital TV adds 499,000 subscribers in 2Q 2017
Jul 25, 2017 – Bharti Airtel has announced results for its first quarter ended June 30, 2017. DTH had 13.3 million customers at the end of the quarter, up 9.6% year-on-year. Net customer additions were 499 thousand.
News categories: Bharti Airtel, Digital TV, India, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Tata Elxsi announces Connected Home Center of Excellence
Jun 19, 2017 – Tata Elxsi's Connected Home Center of Excellence leverages expertise in video, IoT and smart home services, experience of open source middleware such as RDK and Android TV, and solution accelerators to support rapid development and deployment of next-generation Connected Home services.
News categories: Tata Elxsi, Airtel, K P Sreekumar, Sunil Taldar, Android TV, Digital TV, India, RDK, Smart Home

Airtel Digital TV adds 228,000 subscribers in 1Q 2017
May 9, 2017 – Bharti Airtel has announced results for the fourth quarter and full year ended March 31, 2017. DTH had 12.8 million customers at the end of the quarter, up 9.3% versus the same quarter last year.
News categories: Airtel, India, Results, Satellite, Subscribers