TRAI tells DTH operators to get real, report only active subscriber base

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has asked DTH players to report only active subscribers and not count temporarily suspended subscribers, as they used to earlier.

Until March 2019, DTH operators, while reporting their subscriber base, included subscribers whose connections had been temporarily suspended for up to 120 days. The figure also included the total registered subscriber from the date the operator started operations.

“To bring complete transparency, for the first time, the information related to active subscribers in a month (Monthly Subscription Report) is (being) collected by TRAI from DTH operators. This figure was never collected earlier,” Trai Secretary SK Gupta told BusinessLine.