{"id":1036076,"date":"2026-09-17T07:47:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T02:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1036076"},"modified":"2026-09-17T07:51:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T02:21:06","slug":"dth-operators-provide-over-%e2%82%b911000-crore-against-mib-licence-fee-demands-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/17\/dth-operators-provide-over-%e2%82%b911000-crore-against-mib-licence-fee-demands-2\/","title":{"rendered":"DTH operators provide over \u20b911,000 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<p>Tata Play has provided \u20b92,331 crore against an MIB demand of \u20b94,548 crore and recognised a further \u20b93,232 crore as a contingent liability. Bharti Telemedia, which operates under the Airtel Digital TV brand, has provided around \u20b94,487 crore, though it has not disclosed the MIB&#8217;s demand.<\/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. Tata Play has provided \u20b92,331 crore against an MIB demand of \u20b94,548 crore and recognised a further \u20b93,232 crore as a contingent liability. Bharti Telemedia, which operates under the Airtel Digital TV [&hellip;]<\/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-1036076","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\/1036076","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=1036076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036099,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036076\/revisions\/1036099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}