Users ‘dump’ cable for DTH

A few city subscribers have started to shift from local cable operators to DTH platforms, saying their preferred channels had gone off TV sets.

Their contention: channels chosen in the new cable tariff regime are not activated on their connections.

Almost every cable operator in Bengal has lost subscribers to DTH platforms in the past few weeks, according to cable operators’ unions. In some cases, the percentage of migration is 25-30 per cent.

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has made it mandatory for cable and DTH subscribers to choose channels and pay for them.