{"id":1035662,"date":"2026-09-16T07:55:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T02:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1035662"},"modified":"2026-09-16T07:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T02:27:08","slug":"dth-operators-provide-over-rs-11000-crore-against-mib-licence-fee-demands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/16\/dth-operators-provide-over-rs-11000-crore-against-mib-licence-fee-demands\/","title":{"rendered":"DTH operators provide over Rs 11,000 crore against MIB licence-fee demands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DTH operators have made provisions of more than \u20b911,000 crore against disputed licence-fee liabilities as of March 31, 2026, in response to demands raised by the Ministry of Information &amp; Broadcasting (MIB), according to regulatory filings. <\/p>\n<p>The industry is meanwhile awaiting a government decision on reducing the DTH licence fee from the current 8% of adjusted gross revenue (AGR), even as the disputed dues remain locked in litigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DTH operators have made provisions of more than \u20b911,000 crore against disputed licence-fee liabilities as of March 31, 2026, in response to demands raised by the Ministry of Information &amp; Broadcasting (MIB), according to regulatory filings. The industry is meanwhile awaiting a government decision on reducing the DTH licence fee from the current 8% of adjusted gross revenue (AGR), even as the disputed dues remain locked in litigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035685,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035662\/revisions\/1035685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}