3 Pakistani DTH,s to start services ,Security Clearances Underway

[Prashant Shridhar]

will all 3 dth service use different satellite or only paksat???

 

[dreambox.pk]

Thats very cheap


India has huge market

 

[dreambox.pk]

Here we don't hv bidding process in DTH license. Anybody can pay 10 crore(entry fee) for 10 years and get dth license. These operators are required to pay 10% of their annual revenue to central government along with other taxes like service tax(15% to central government) , entertainment tax(state govt), vat(state) etc. State govt taxes varies from states to states.

will all 3 dth service use different satellite or only paksat???

Its depends on how much space available and how much space dth companies demand

 

[Bapun]

[font=Lato, sans-serif]Pak DTH: Mag, Shahzad & Star Time to start ops in a year[/font]

MUMBAI: Three direct-to-home (DTH) licences in Pakistan were on Wednesday awarded for a total of PKR 14.694 billion (USD 140 million) by the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) as confirmed by its Twitter handle.

The auction started after Pakistan's apex court permitted PEMRA to go ahead with the bidding although the Lahore HC had issued a stay on the process.

The highest bid was raised by Mag Entertainment for PKR 4.91 billion, respectively followed by M/s. Shahzad Sky for PKR 4.90 billion and M/s. Star Time for Rs 4.89 billion, Pakistani newspapers reported. PEMRA issued non-exclusive licences for 15 years to the three companies. The licencees will have to start operations within a year or risk termination.

PEMRA chairman Absar Alam said the DTH service would not end the cable operators’ business, but would compel them to invest in technology and distribution systems.

Pakistani DTH services would counter the sale of illegal Indian DTH services in Pakistan, which leads to annual transfer of between US$ 200 million to US$ 350 million to India on account of subscription fee. The DTH services will now give Pakistani consumers a choice against the existing monopoly of cable operators.

Terming DTH a game-changer, Alam said, it was the biggest investment in Pakistan’s electronic media history. As per estimates and feasibility studies carried out by PEMRA experts, the overall investment, Alam said without explaining, would be US$ 450 million ($ 150 million each) and could reach an additional US$ 750 million in the next two years, newspaper reports stated. Alam said that those estimates did not include the bidding proceeds.

The DTH service, Alam said, was a state-of-the art technology adding new dimension to the audio-visual content distribution system. The existing analogue system was offering a maximum of 80 channels while the DTH, Alam added, would increase the capacity to around 120 and each local DTH licence holder was expected to have at least 500,000 subscribers.

Similarly, landing rights will be permitted to foreign channels to come under the local regime, and new local satellite channels will be approved.


Pak DTH: Mag, Shahzad & Star Time to start ops in a year | Indian Television Dot Com

 

[Sarkar]

Thats very cheap


India has huge market

It has two benefit. First is lots of dth operators 6 private and 1 govt owned so increasing competition and second is at 10% license fee alone central Govt received 750 crore for this financial year 2016-17 and in last 3 years Govt received 2400 crore.

 

[M@zh@R]

LHC Voids DTH Auction, Asks PEMRA to Hold Auction From Scratch

Lahore High Court, in a detailed decision today, termed the recently held DTH auction as void and asked PEMRA to re-start the entire DTH bidding process, starting from inviting new applications.

Decision was primarily based on voiding a section in DTH bidding through which broadcasters (Geo, ARY etc.) were disallowed from participating in the auction.

With this new court order, broadcasters will also be allowed to take part in DTH bidding.

PEMRA had earlier said that broadcasters won’t be given any DTH licenses since it will be a conflict of interest. Lahore High Court, however, decided otherwise and said that broadcasters should be allowed to participate in DTH bidding.

It must be mentioned here that three companies — including one Chinese company — had won the DTH license for 15 years against a license fee of Rs. 4.898 billion per license.

With this new order, if not challenged in Supreme Court, PEMRA will have to start the bidding process from scratch again.

It must be recalled that DTH bidding was originally planned for December 2015, but it was delayed several times and eventually an auction was held on November 23rd, 2016.

Even then Supreme Court had conditionally allowed the auction since Lahore High Court was hearing the case and had issued a stay order on auction.

 

[dreambox.pk]

Today Supreme court of Pakistan uplift the Lahore High Court verdict again auction and allowed three winners to start there services by following PEMRA norms

 

[dreambox.pk]

PEMRA Wins the DTH Case, SC Overturns LHC Decision - Baaghi TV Pakistan

 

[dreambox.pk]

 

[dreambox.pk]

1 DTH got clearance

Licence to be issued to 3 of them by 20 November

Shahzadsky and MAG DTH websites launched

Shahzad Sky

MAG|DTH