Breaking IPTV Services To Start By Airtel For Fiber/AirFiber Customers

[Lucifer_King]

Just now called up regional DTH head for this exact query. He told currently will be launched ONLY for NEW black customers from around 5-6th of this month in metro cities and in the next 2-3 months, all over India. Will need new box and NO app will be required. It's just gonna be like DTH boxes, bootup and simply enter channel number and channel will open. Data used by IPTV WILL BE counted against quota of Fiber/Airfiber. Today itself within 12 days depleted whole 1TB of airfiber data so obviously wont't suitable for me at least and also average TV viewing household will use up around 150-200 or even upto 250GB data for IPTV if mostly HD channels are watched on an average of 4-5 hours/day. Obviously won't work outside of airtel network. Also, currently NO extra NCF NOC benefits compared to DTH.

Verdict - if you have DTH then keep it. It's the best thing ever. If, for some reason you want to switch to IPTV, make sure you are on Airtel fiber for 3.3TB cap.

Also another verdict - Airtel has become the most money-hungry company, even above Jio

 

[Ashok Varma]

currently NO extra NCF NOC benefits compared to DTH.

If, for some reason you want to switch to IPTV, make sure you are on Airtel fiber for 3.3TB

Will they provide same DTH benefits(Rs 350/-) to iptv for black users(699/-plan&above)?

 

[SPANDAN]

So the channel list will be same as from airtel dth or more and new channels can be expected??

 

[Senti]

So the channel list will be same as from airtel dth or more and new channels can be expected??

It's the same as dth as of now.

 

[AftabIN]

It's the same as dth as of now.

Bro if you have access of those please show some VISUALS .. everybody is talking in texts only.

 

[Senti]

Bro if you have access of those please show some VISUALS .. everybody is talking in texts only.

U need list of channels?

 

[AftabIN]

U need list of channels?

No the box picture and ui

 

[Bapun]

No the box picture and ui

What I understand is @Senti (the same user thamizh95 on DDF who first cracked the Airtel IPTV news) is accessing the details on his Airtel Xstream DTH STB. No one seem to have got their hands on with the new Airtel IPTV STB.

Please correct me if wrong, @Senti.

 

[Senti]

Yes havent seen the physical box yet. Just got access to api while they are testing.

 

[Lucifer_King]

Everything is same as of now w.r.t pricing. Airtel is NOT planning to launch app for existing STB customers. For IPTV, entirely new box will be needed. He told me approx 60-70GB data consumed per month even if heavily TV is used with all HD channels. If he is quoting some marketing material then it's complete BS cuz my friend who uses jiofiber and jiotv+ heavily..his family members...it uses approx 150-200GB data/month as all HD channels are being watched. If airtel's implementation uses less than 100GB/month then channels will be heavily compressed