Dish TV CEO Manoj Dobhal also said that the government should immediately implement TRAI's recommendation to reduce the licensing fee from the current 8% to 3% of Adjusted Gross Revenue

Tata Play and Airtel Digital TV could merger soon. Bharti Airtel has confirmed that the merger talks between the two companies are being explored.

India's Tata Group and Bharti Group are close to merging their satellite TV businesses, creating a nearly $1.6 billion entity with the aim of tiding over the sustained migration of subscribers to digital streaming,

Industry experts view that Airtel Digital TV-Tata Play merger as a strategic response to DTH market decline, driven by free-to-air (FTA) and streaming competition. They emphasise the benefits of consolidation,

Bharti Airtel has confirmed that it is in discussions with Tata group to merge their DTH businesses, Tata Play and Airtel Digital TV.

Bharti Airtel, in an exchange filing, has confirmed that it is in talks with the Tata Group about a potential merger of Tata Play’s direct-to-home (DTH)

Airtel will access Tata Play’s 19 million households, supporting its plan to combine telecom, broadband, and DTH offerings. In April 2024, Tata Sons raised its Tata Play stake to 70%, buying Temasek’s 10% share for Rs. 835 crore ($100 million), setting the company’s value at $1 billion—down from $3 billion pre-pandemic.

Leading telecom services provider Bharti Airtel on Wednesday said it is in talks with Tata Group for the merger of its loss-making Direct-To-Home (DTH) business. Airtel is holding discussions with the salt-to-software conglomerate for the merger of Bharti Telemedia,

Tata and Bharti groups are finalizing a merger of their DTH businesses, Tata Play and Airtel Digital TV, due to consumer shifts to digital platforms. The merger, structured through a share swap, will boost Airtel's revenues and is to be managed by Airtel's senior management.

Bharti Airtel is negotiating with Tata Group to merge its DTH business, Bharti Telemedia, with Tata Play, aiming for a share swap arrangement. The deal, if successful, will follow the Dish TV-Videocon d2h merger in 2016,

"We wish to submit that Bharti Airtel Limited (‘Airtel’) and TATA Group are in bilateral discussions to explore a potential transaction to achieve a combination of TATA Groups