Anil Ambani eyes big share in DTH space

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Mumbai, August 19:: Anil Ambani's Reliance BigTV forayed into the growing Direct-to-Home services and has drawn up an ambitious plan to capture 40 per cent of the market share within a year.

Reliance Big TV, a subsidiary of Reliance Communications, will offer 202 channels initially and increase the bouquet to 330-350 over a period of time, company CEO Arun Kapoor said.

Against 120 million TV homes in India, world's second largest, only six million are connected to DTH services being provided by four players namely, Tata Sky, Dish TV, Sun TV and DD Direct.

"The number of DTH TV homes is likely to grow by an additional 11-12 million in a year from now and we aim to have 40 per cent market share of that," Kapoor said.

The DTH subscriber base is likely to go up to 60 million by 2015, he added.

The service would be available in over one lakh outlets across country's 6,500 towns including over 2,000 exclusive Reliance branded stores. By March 2009, the reach would be extended to 10,000 towns, he said.

"We are ready to provide the service to five million homes," Kapoor said adding that STBs would be outsourced from various vendors including Hyundai and ZTB.