Bharti Telemedia to launch DTH by Q4 07-08

MUMBAI: Bharti Airtel’s subsidiary Bharti Telemedia will be launching its Direct To Home (DTH) services by the last quarter of FY 2007-08. The company has received the letter of intent (LoI) for commencing its DTH services from the Union Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. Bharti Airtel president and CEO Manoj Kohli said, “The launch of DTH services will add tremendously to our existing bouquet of integrated telecom offerings. We will be deploying world-class technology and infrastructure to offer the best in class DTH services to our customers.” The DTH services will be launched nationally by the company. Towards this, the company is setting up state-of-art infrastructure near Gurgaon (Haryana) for the purpose of uplinking and broadcast.