Dish TV, Tata Sky, Airtel Digital TV Offers, Packs, Channel Price List, Plans

The DTH and broadcasting industry took a sudden shift in pricing and monthly plans under the new tariff regime in the country implemented by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).DTH service providers like DishTV, Tata Sky, and Airtel Digital TV have come up with curated base and regional packs that users can choose as per their requirement instead of manually adding channels and calculating the monthly charge by adding channel charges and the network capacity fee (NCF). We are comparing the base plans and regional packs from DishTV, Tata Sky, and Airtel Digital TV along with the channel pricing, NFC charges and Broadcasters packs across the three DTH service providers.

For the DishTV consumers, 25 DD channels (FTA) are mandatory to add in a pack. DishTV is a good choice for those who want only FTA channels as the service provider offers all the FTA channels for NCF of Rs 130 (plus taxes).

For consumers having more than one TV connection under the same account in a home, Airtel Digital TV has reduced the NCF to Rs 80 (plus taxes) for the first 100 SD channels. Additional NCF of Rs 20 (plus taxes) is applicable for subsequent slots of 25 SD channels above 100 channels mark.

Tata Sky is offering Flexi Annual Plan, where users get one month of free subscription on the recharge of 12 months. Consumers will have the option to add or drop channels from their pack at any time.

Compare DTH Channels Count, Packs and Plans

If we talk about HD channels count, Tata Sky beats Airtel. Tata Sky provides maximum 91 HD channels, on the other hand, Airtel provides 79 HD channels & Dish TV provides 72 HD channels.

If we talk about SD channels, Tata Sky, Airtel and Dish TV provide an almost equal number of SD channels.

Regarding picture quality, it’s almost the same in Dish TV and Tata Sky but in Airtel, the HD Channels are very sharp and clean in comparison with both the DTH.