What is DD Direct Plus?
DD Direct Plus is the free DTH services being offered by the Government of India through Prasar Bharati, a constituent of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. It is transmitted thorough the Insat4B satellite by using Ku-Band. ly known as DD Free Dish, DD Direct Plus has the listing of over fifty channels of various genres like news, music, and entertainment. Though it is a free service, the subscriber needs to pay for equipment such as Dish Antenna, Set Top Box; and its installations. The majority of channels transmitted by DD Direct Plus are various Doordarshan channels and other channels in various languages. The other channels are ETC, Mastiii, Sadhna, Sony Mix, Star Utsav, France 24, etc., while the radio channels include AIR, FM, DWS, and Delhi 2. DD Direct Plus has a very few premium channels in its listing which is one of the major factors of drifting of its customers to other's DTH service providers. The devices and equipment of DD Direct Plus such as set top box and Dish Antenna are available at the network of dealers and consumer electronic outlets across the country.
Channels Line Up
Apart from T.V. channels, it telecasts over 20 radio channels.
DD Direct Plus enjoys the subscriber base of over 18 million people throughout India and is one of the leading DTH service providers in India. Inspite of one of the largest DTH subscribers in the country, DD Direct Plus has to struggle in the stiff competition offered by many private DTH providers, which have a broad line up of channels and launched packages. It has also a moderate customer base in Pakistan with over two million people. It shares rivalry with the paid DTH operations such as Airtel, Dish TV, Sun Direct, Tata Sky, and Reliance Digital TV.
Operations and Infrastructure
DD Direct Plus is being provided on the FTA and its receiving end is located in Delhi, India. It transmits on the several frequency ranges from 10990 MHz, 11070 MHz, 11150 MHz, 11490 MHz, and 11570 MHz, while the position is vertical. The channels are delivered on the MPEG-2 technology format to the set top box. The signal is sent to the dish, which has the diameter of 60 to 90 c.m. DD Direct Plus provides a separate listing of ten channels on C Band to the regions of Andaman and Nicobar Islands due to the lack of the coverage of Ku Band there.
History and Expansion
DD Direct Plus was introduced in 2004 by Dr. Manmohan Singh, then Prime Minister of India. The service was launched to provide benefits of free satellite TV services to the households across India who couldn't afford expensive cable TV services; and to the remote areas and rural communities in the country. DD Direct Plus started with the lineup of thirty channels to telecast and with the further progress, it added other TV channels and radio stations as well. It was one of the earlier DTH service providers in India and gradually gained a dominant share in the total count of the DTH subscribers in India. The major part of its customer care is the communities residing in the rural areas and small towns of India.
The customer care number of
DD Direct Plus can be contacted from
Kolkata, South Delhi, Ghaziabad, Vadodara, Indore, Gwalior,Delhi, Pune, Chandigarh, Faridabad, Goregaon, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Gurgaon, Jamshedpur, Lucknow, Himachal Pradesh, Cochin, Hyderabad, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Baroda, Andhra Pradesh, North Delhi, Chennai, Trivandrum, Tamil Nadu, Allahabad, Madhya Pradesh, Agra,East Delhi, Navi Mumbai, Noida, Thane, New Delhi, West Delhi India, etc.
Contact Details of DD Direct Plus
DD Direct Plus is the renowned DTH amenity carried out by government of India, facilitates its service all around the country. Government of India renders contact details with respect to provide convenience to the people. People can gain more information and knowledge about the
DD Direct Plus and its amenities via the assistance of the contact details. In order to provide feedback and suggestion to the mentioned service, feel free to stay or contact below mentioned details:
Contact to Director General of DD Direct PlusTelephone:
23386055Contact to Ms. Gita Nayyar about DD Direct PlusTelephone:
23386055 Fax:
23388159Contact to Mr. S. Twickly about DD Direct PlusTelephone:
23382028Gain more knowledge with regard to the
DD Direct Plus, people approach the given link that is:
http://www.ddindia.gov.in/Information/Pages/Contact-Us.aspx