As TRAI’s has already announced the new regulations for the television and broadcasting sector hence the customers are experiencing the freedom of optimizing the selection of the T.V channels they want to watch and hence the major cable and DTH service providers are showing more and more transparency regarding the best packages that the customer can choose as per new regulations according to their taste and interests.
The key players such as Gurdeep Singh Fastway and others have already made their mark by paying services as per new regulations set by the TRAI and the fact that all the information’s such as selection, prices as well as the terms and conditions under which they are applicable is readily available just by visiting the official websites is making it more trustworthy.
Deep Dive Into It
Your payment has two parts. The first one is called the Network Capacity Fee( NCF). It can be considered as a rental charge of the cable TVF connected to your home and the other is the price of the paid ones.
Gurdeep Singh Fastway is acting in compliance with TRAI regulations by having set MRP of NCF as Rs. 130 per month and this rental include the carriage of 100 TV stations. You can select any free to air( FTA) channel, pay channel or a bouquet(s) of paid ones depending upon your liking and the consensus being made by family members. If you wish to increase them because you want to have more choice rather than being limited to only 100 then you can have more to watch just by paying an additional amount of Rs. 20 for 25 additional distributors capacity or a part thereof. For example, suppose you wish to watch 110 stations, you must be charged an amount not exceeding Rs. 150(INR. 130+20) per month. In case you want to watch 150 , you have to pay for another INR. 20 for the slab 125-150 broadcasting stations.
FTA or free to air ones are free, hence no money gets charged for FTA broadcasting which are 571 in number at present. If you select a free channel and its inclusion does not affect your NCF, then the value will not change. However, the addition of a paid channel without changing the NCF will end up increasing the value by the price of the additional channel you choose to add.
BST package will include 125 of them ranging from DD National to PTC Punjabi Gold HD. Fastway is charging NCF of Rs. 130 for the first 100 and Rs. 0.80 for every additional SD channel on a pro-rata basis(based on INR. 20 for every 25 channels). There is a total of 209 of them in suggestive Bouquet having a total price of 199.42 including INR 30.42 as GST including a total discount of Rs. 11.05. Different broadcaster packages rates depend upon broadcaster, bouquet name and the number of the private distributors for example Bouquet name as Star Hindi value having broadcaster star will have 12 channels and will cost you MRP 49 only.
Conclusion: The leading service providers such as Fastway Transmission Pvt. Ltd. are showing more transparency, given the fact that TRAI regulations have made it clear that customers have the power to choose the channels of their wish. The payment usually has two components NCF, which is a kind of rental and other is the price of the paid. The MRP of NCF is set as 130 per month by TRAI. Besides paid , we also have FTR which are free to air.
