Switch text for DTH subscribers

Direct-to-home (DTH) TV subscribers on yearly plans have started receiving text messages to choose their packs or channels with just a week left for the March 31 deadline set by the national telecom regulator to transit to the new payment regime.

The subscribers who will not register their choice will be automatically allotted a package with a rental closest to the one they now pay, representatives of DTH players said.

In the new system, subscribers are to choose the channels they want to watch and only pay for them.

Cable homes serviced by the multi-service operators were the first to be moved to the new regime, the process having been started early last month. The switch for the DTH subscribers started earlier this month with consumers on monthly subscriptions receiving messages to choose channels afresh.