Digital TV News: Airtel Digital TV

Airtel launches ‘Internet TV’ for Digital Homes
Apr 12, 2017 – Airtel Digital TV has launched ‘Internet TV’ – India’s first hybrid STB, powered by Android TV, which brings online content to the TV screen along with a bouquet of over 500 plus satellite TV channels.
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Airtel Digital TV adds 183,000 subscribers in 4Q 2016
Jan 24, 2017 – Bharti Airtel has announced results for its third quarter ended December 31, 2016. DTH had 12.6 million customers at the end of the quarter. Net customer additions for Digital TV during the quarter were 183,000.
News categories: Airtel, India, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Airtel Digital TV adds 256,000 subscribers in 3Q 2016
Oct 25, 2016 – Bharti Airtel has announced results for its second quarter ended September 30, 2016. DTH had 12.4 million customers at the end of the quarter, up 17.3% compared with the corresponding quarter last year.
News categories: Airtel, India, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Airtel Digital TV adds 424,000 subscribers in 2Q 2016
Jul 27, 2016 – Bharti Airtel has announced results for the first quarter ended June 30, 2016. On June 30, 2016, the Company had 12.1 million DTH customers, an increase of 16.7%, the highest in the last 13 quarters, as compare to the corresponding quarter last year.
News categories: Airtel, India, Satellite, Subscribers

Harmonic powers Airtel Digital TV's enhanced DTH HD offerings
May 24, 2016 – Harmonic (NASDAQ: HLIT) has announced that Airtel Digital TV has deployed a compression headend solution from Harmonic. The deployment enables Airtel Digital TV to expand its DTH HD portfolio to over 50 premium channels.
News categories: Harmonic, Airtel Digital TV, Dan Taylor, BroadcastAsia, Content Distribution, India, Satellite

Airtel Digital TV adds 619,000 subscribers in 1Q 2016
Apr 27, 2016 – Bharti Airtel has announced results for the quarter ended March 31, 2016. At the end of the period, the Company had 11.7 million DTH customers, representing an increase of 16.4% as compared to the corresponding quarter last year.
News categories: Airtel, India, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Airtel Digital TV adds 530,000 subscribers in 4Q 2015
Jan 28, 2016 – Bharti Airtel has announced results for the third quarter ended December 31, 2015. As on December 31, 2015, the Company had 11.1 million customers, which represents an increase of 13.2% in comparison with the corresponding quarter last year.
News categories: Bharti Airtel, India, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

STMicroelectronics SoCs deployed by MyBox in Airtel Digital TV STB
Jan 21, 2016 – STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) is celebrating the successful field deployment of satellite set-top boxes (STB) from MyBox – A Hero Electronix Venture for India’s Airtel Digital TV. MyBox’s Digital HD STBs are powered by ST’s STiH237 satellite SoC.
News categories: STMicroelectronics, MyBox, Vivek Sharma, Amit Kharabanda, Digital TV, India, Satellite, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

South Asia STB shipments see phenomenal rise
Nov 4, 2015 – With the pay-TV industry in all major SAARC countries moving toward digitization, set-top boxes of all kinds from SD to HDTV and hybrid boxes are witnessing steady and robust growth, according to new research from Dataxis.
News categories: Dataxis, Sreeja VN, Bangladesh, Cable TV, Digital TV, India, Market Research, Nepal, Pakistan, Satellite, Set Top Box, Sri Lanka