Kolkata: Reliance Jio<\/a> Infocomm’s promise of a high-definition TV and set-top box along with a range of services for people opting for its yearly broadband plans is likely to trigger another wave of disruption.
This time, it is going to be in the urban digital TV market, inducing customers of Bharti Airtel, Tata Sky and Siti Cable<\/a> to switch to the new service provider, analysts said.
At Reliance Industries Ltd’ recent AGM, chairman Mukesh Ambani said customers opting for the Jio-Forever annual home broadband plans — to be launched on September 5 — would get an HD or 4K LED smart television along with a 4K set-top box for free as part of a “welcome offer”.
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Kolkata: Reliance Jio<\/a> Infocomm’s promise of a high-definition TV and set-top box along with a range of services for people opting for its yearly broadband plans is likely to trigger another wave of disruption.
This time, it is going to be in the urban digital TV market, inducing customers of Bharti Airtel, Tata Sky and Siti Cable<\/a> to switch to the new service provider, analysts said.
At Reliance Industries Ltd’ recent AGM, chairman Mukesh Ambani said customers opting for the Jio-Forever annual home broadband plans — to be launched on September 5 — would get an HD or 4K LED smart television along with a 4K set-top box for free as part of a “welcome offer”.
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Macquarie Research said RIL’s offer “is a game-changer that poses considerable threat of churn for ur-ban-focussed TV distributors like Tata Sky, Airtel Digital TV<\/a> and Siti”, especially with national cable TV players Hathway<\/a> and Den Networks already in Reliance Industries’ fold.
The welcome pack, it said, “provides significant incentive for existing urban cable\/DTH subscribers, who can afford the annual upfront payment to shift to JioFiber”.
JioFiber plans will range between Rs 700 and Rs 10,000 a month. Details of annual membership will be known only closer to the launch date next month.
Airtel, Tata Sky and Siti Cable didn’t respond to ET’s request for comment until press time Sunday.
Analysts said Dish TV<\/a> India, owned by Zee founder Subhash Chandra’s family, would be “less impacted” due to its rural-centric user base.
Many rural consumers, they say, could find an annual pack with upfront payment unaffordable.
Latest Trai data for the quarter through March pegs the national DTH user base at around 73 million, with Dish TV leading with a market share of 40%, followed by Tata Sky (25%), Airtel Digital TV (22%) and Sun Direct (12%).
Experts said while urban directto-home (DTH) incumbents would find it tough to match Jio’s home broadband welcome pack, the country’s largest telecom operator by users and revenue would require top-end customers to remain sticky for at least three years, given the Rs 10,000-15,000 subsidy on offer per home.
Spark Capital said Jio’s free LED television offer to push annual plan subscriptions could “rake in disproportionate market share in towns\/cities beyond Tier 1”, and could be “cost-neutral for RIL”, as a likely combination of a security deposit of Rs 4,000-6,000 and upfront annual revenue of Rs 7,000-8,000 “may fund the likely cost of a 32-inch LED TV, typically priced around Rs 10,000-12,000”.
Some analysts expect Jio’s overall home broadband subscription growth to be gradual due to continuing last-mile connectivity challenges.
This, they said, is reflected in Jio’s preview home broadband services, which though attracted 15 million registrations from 1,600 towns, found only around 5 lakh homes opting for trials in the past one year, despite the services being free.
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