The business of illegal DTH receivers from India is growing in many countries including Gulf nations. Legally speaking, Indian DTH operators do not have the licence to offer services in other countries, but black marketers and electronic retailers sell banned decoding receivers that allow consumers to watch Indian TV channels at a very low price.
To clamp it down, Pay TV platform OSN’s official distributors has partnered with Oman’s customs department; they are attacking people who make available illegal set top boxes (STBs) of Indian direct to home (DTH) operators.
Due to this piracy of DTH, OSN is facing a mounting loss, which pays millions of dollars to content providers but is not able to monetise the content due to piracy.
OSN distributors have said: “It has been recently noticed that a number of activities and on a wide range are seen from shops that sell satellite receivers, where the owners of the shops introduce some illegal satellite receivers as legal devices, whereas they contain all the rights of Orbit Showtime Network (OSN) legal channels in terms of content and programs. These devices are branded as Dish TV, Airtel, Tata Sky and other similar devices.”
They added, “The owners of the shops enter these devices to the territory of the Sultanate and trade in with the devices without abiding the laws and without registering with any named agency.”
OSN further said: “Necessary procedures, in coordination with the Directorate General of Customs, will prevent the entry of receivers with the brand names (Dish TV, Airtel, and Tata Sky) through all commercial channels at all outlets and will prevent the permit for re-exportation.”
Source: http://cablequest.org/index.php/news/dth-news/item/11534-osn-oman-authority-clamp-down-on-illegal-dth-receivers-from-india
To clamp it down, Pay TV platform OSN’s official distributors has partnered with Oman’s customs department; they are attacking people who make available illegal set top boxes (STBs) of Indian direct to home (DTH) operators.Due to this piracy of DTH, OSN is facing a mounting loss, which pays millions of dollars to content providers but is not able to monetise the content due to piracy.
OSN distributors have said: “It has been recently noticed that a number of activities and on a wide range are seen from shops that sell satellite receivers, where the owners of the shops introduce some illegal satellite receivers as legal devices, whereas they contain all the rights of Orbit Showtime Network (OSN) legal channels in terms of content and programs. These devices are branded as Dish TV, Airtel, Tata Sky and other similar devices.”
They added, “The owners of the shops enter these devices to the territory of the Sultanate and trade in with the devices without abiding the laws and without registering with any named agency.”
OSN further said: “Necessary procedures, in coordination with the Directorate General of Customs, will prevent the entry of receivers with the brand names (Dish TV, Airtel, and Tata Sky) through all commercial channels at all outlets and will prevent the permit for re-exportation.”
Source: http://cablequest.org/index.php/news/dth-news/item/11534-osn-oman-authority-clamp-down-on-illegal-dth-receivers-from-india
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