Govt earns Rs 188.5 mn as license fee from Dish TV, Tata Sky in 2006-07

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NEW DELHI: Private direct-to-home (DTH) service provider Dish TV India has paid Rs 100 million as license fee to the government in 2006-07 while its close rival Tata Sky has had to part with Rs 88.5 million, the Information and Broadcasting minister Priyaranjan Dasmunsi said.
As per Article 3 of the Schedule containing terms and conditions of License Agreement, a DTH licensee has to share 10 per [COLOR=blue! important][COLOR=blue! important]cent[/COLOR][/COLOR] of the gross revenue every year as license fee.
Dish TV, in fact, has been paying license fee for the past three years that it has been in operations. The amount accruing to the government has been Rs 20.5 million for 2004-2005 and Rs 25 million for 2005-2006.

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NEW DELHI: Private direct-to-home (DTH) service provider Dish TV India has paid Rs 100 million as license fee to the government in 2006-07 while its close rival Tata Sky has had to part with Rs 88.5 million, the Information and Broadcasting minister Priyaranjan Dasmunsi said.
As per Article 3 of the Schedule containing terms and conditions of License Agreement, a DTH licensee has to share 10 percent of the gross revenue every year as license fee.


Something odd about this report: TS started operations in Aug 2006. In 8 months (aug06 - mar 07), TS paid 88.5 million; i.e. their revenue was 88.5 crores ( with a customer base of approx. half a million). But distv's revenue is 100 crores for the same period with about 1.5 million customers. Perhaps there are other sources for earning we do not know anything about.

For TS average revenue per year from 2 million customers with an rpc(revenue per customer) of 300 is 720 crores.
For dishtv with 3.5 million custeomers with an rpc of 250 - 1050 crores.
When will TS break even?