well vikram tata sky is best in cust care, aftersales, quality of hardware and software and best thing is thet they give priority to quality than quantity. some people say its costly but honestly its not, if u r paying rs 20 extra , inreturn u r getting excellent service, whats wrong in it, there r so many costs involvced in running a dth company well like getting contracted service teams, slaries to each contracted person and own staff, huge expenses of power in running transmission at headend and different branch offices, running a efficient cust care, giving share of revenue to channels and govt as taxes(remember of rs 300 u give, dth company gets mere rs 20, rst goes to diffrent channels as their share and to diff taxes of state and centre)
never compare cable to dth rates, in cable tv, cable operators underdecalere subscribers to channel owners and goverment, if they have suppose one lakh customers, they tell channel owners and govt of having only 30 thousand customers and give channels and goverment the share of only 30 thousand customers, rst 70 thousand full revenue plus share of 30 thousand which they r left with, theyget all and become rich, so for a cable operator is a win win situation if they take evn rs 50 as rent bcoz they dont give any share of it to channel owners or goverment but in dth all customer share is transparent and no cheating can happen
tata sky will get more transponders soon and their trouble of less channels and more compression will get resolved