Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) has issued the revised Information Memorandum (IM) for the auction of DTH licenses to be held on October 31, 2016.
PEMRA has revised the eligibility criteria for the applicants, which has already disqualified some of the earlier accepted applicants.
More details below!
Eligibility Criteria for Applicants:
- Applicant must be a registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP).
- One applicant can’t apply or get more than one DTH license.
- Applicants must have a minimum paid-up capital of Rs. 100 Million.
- The applicant company will have to demonstrate that it has sufficient financial and technical resources to launch, establish and operate the DTH Distribution Service.
- Applicants shall have less than 50% of the shares owned or controlled by foreign nationals/companies, if any, with or without management or control vested in foreign nationals or companies.
- The Chief Executive Officer of the applicant company must be a resident Pakistani.
- The applicant, directly or indirectly, already holding any licence(s) issued by the Authority, shall not be eligible for grant of licence unless all outstanding dues in respect of such licence(s) have been paid.
- Any director or shareholder of one Applicant Company shall not be a director or shareholder in any other applicant company for DTH Distribution Service Licence.
- The applicants must not already be a licensee who owns, controls or operates directly or indirectly any broadcast media licence or landing rights permission
- The applicant shall demonstrate universal service objectives.
Short listing of Applicant Companies
The applicant companies shall be shortlisted as per the above criteria as per provisions of PEMRA Laws on the basis of the documents/information provided by them. Incomplete applications may not be entertained.
Short listing of Applicant Company, however, shall not guarantee grant of licence. The licence shall be granted to the successful bidders only after fulfillment of all legal requirements, approval of Authority and payment of requisite fees and taxes.
Shortlisting does not include security clearance, public hearing and provincial concurrence. These shall be done for all shortlisted applicants after completion of the bidding process and before grant of the licence.
PEMRA reserves the right to seek any information and clarification or any additional documentation from any applicant company or its shareholding or holding / parent company within such time as it may deem fit. If the applicant company fails to provide such information & clarification within the stipulated time, its application may be rejected without any further processing.
The shortlisted applicant companies shall be invited to participate in the bidding. The applicant company shall participate in the bidding as per bidding procedure given in regulation 10 below.
Bidding Procedure
Shortlisted companies that participate in the bidding shall provide a separate Power of Attorney, on stamp paper and executed, notarized, witnessed, stamped and authenticated as required by law, for the person representing the company in the bidding process (Schedule-G). The company shall be bound by the decisions of that person so authorized or having power of attorney in matters connected to the bidding.
A maximum of two representatives per company shall be allowed to participate in the bidding.
If less than three shortlisted bidders appear on the bidding date, the matter shall be referred to the Authority for decision, and the Authority shall decide within thirty (30) calendar days whetherto declare the bidder or bidders provisionally successful or not.
The decision of the Authority shall be final.
The Bidding Committee, duly constituted by the Authority, shall conduct the bidding process. In case of any dispute during the bidding process, the decision of the Bidding Committee shall be final.
The bidding shall consist of the following two rounds:
- First Round through sealed bids
- Second Round through open outcry
The second round shall start immediately after the first round.
- Only authorized persons of the shortlisted applicant companies shall be allowed to participate in the bidding process on provision of the authorization letter.
- The bids shall be offered in Pak Rupees.
- The conditional bids, having ‘ifs’ and ‘buts,’ shall out-rightly be rejected.
License Fee
The successful bidders may choose to pay the licence fee upfront or in instalments as per following options:
- Upfront: 100% payment
- Instalments: an upfront payment of the balance towards 50% of the applicable licence fee, and the remaining amount in 10 years in 10 equal annual instalments with a cumulative mark-up rate at the KIBOR rate, applied from the period of the date the upfront payment is due to the payment date.
- The successful bidders may pay the remaining balance of the Applicable Licence Fee at any time in advance of the scheduled installment, along with payment of cumulative mark-up up to such date of payment.
Topi drama
We heared about upcoming DTH licenses auction in Pakistan from our Grandfathers and our Grandchilds will listen about it from us.
Thats pretty much summed up the story of DTH auction
Chaa gaye ho.. :)
Till then enjoy TataSky and make life jheena lala lolzzzz who wanted to see bhabhi dewar affair on HD on Hum
Our Bhabi dever is better than Tatasky’s Saas bahu. Even they watch our dramas not their own saas bahu
there are other genres to watch like sports, infotainment,kids and English movies
They will also available on our DTH
u can get hum free from asiasat7.
Grandchildren :P
Topi Dramas will continues in Pakistan until and up till Mafia rules and controls us directly or indirectly…
Chalo bhai ab aik license to M/s Sharif Feed Mills ko mil gaya. Absar ka mission complete.
Dunya 2003 mein dth per shift ho gai..aur pakistan 2016 mein khushiyan mna rha hai
Because Cable wala ki MITHAI, MALAI chalti rahey
Fees No problem, as Pakistan is gold for Investors national/international level.
Some articles remind you how much Pakistan is on backfoot in tech.
Pak dth mein hoo gaa kiya ?? 50 news channels and 1 movie 1 topi darma :D
exactly bro .. shit wrapped in gold remains shit
Going to buy starsat hyper 2000 receiver 1 4 feet dish. 2 lnbs total cost 8000 with no monthly charges and now I can watch 600 hd and sd channels from india pakistan and other hd channels too on my 40 inch led. Now who wants dth.
Please share detail . Which sat you are aiming to recieve sat name please
Starsat hyper 2000 hd reciever. Which offers free dishtv india with 35 pakistani ent and news channels. And a lot of sports ent movie and infotainment channel from asia in sd format. Go any dish shop he will guide you better.
bhai that is one year deal only. but european dth is much better in my opinion their nat geo , hbo, discovery has few ads as compared to indian ones.
Can u name any european reciever which offer better subscription. And hyper is offering dishtv sd which means most of the channels are in hindi. ( I mean nat geo. Discovery animal planet and other star sports.) But European dth will be in English right,?
change audio TRACK it will come in English even on dishtv,sundth, etc. Actually I dont know much about european servers but I have used iptv which has those european channels so I know little info. Pakistan mein only 13e ata hai even that depends on location. 8-10 ft is ok size in most cases.
European dth is not whole in english sadly. Most of sports channels are in French, German, Italian. However there is English audio on many channels according to lyngsat.
Indian HD no more working hyper… You are going to buy now it’s dead now
Nothing serious to watch
Soon server will be closed
Sd is working while hd is off and how u can say it is dead
forget Indian dth. Same old indian english and content filled with ads from top to bottom. HB 13 is better deal.
u can buy local cline
Not that simple man
Yes! Itna easy hota to awam pagal hai jo cable walo ko her mahinay 3-400 rupay dete hain. Free dish pe kuch b nahi hai. Totally bakwas.
I don’t know why u saying this. A lot of my friends are watching hd channels on dish
They charge annual fees and a shopkeeper told me that you must have an active wifi connection for it.
Yes but for 600 hundred Indian pakistani and world
channels plus sports. Infotainment news. And with clear sd and hd format. This is not so costly. And who don’t have Wi-Fi these days. Cable walaon se to behtar hai dear
meanwhile Indian DTH is widely available in Pakistan for 200 per month for dishtv sd and dishtv hd for 500 per month on card sharing. You just need a gprs based set top box for 3000 ,2 ft dish,lnb and u r ready to go. Or just spend 15k on 8ft dish u can get european tv. Pakistan’s dth will remain expensive and with lack many channels even when launched.
Even 400 rupees iptv is better than this non sense.
IPTV is a technology. Can you specifically recommend an IPTV service provider?
well I already told before it is hard to say. Many kodi free addons work fine or otherwise u need to visit dish antenna shops, they also sell iptv dongle and service.
Can any one give details about the IPTV..The Software, Speed, CHannels, playlists etc..
Thanx..
See Aliexpress
We have DTH Solutions in hand since a year & we are expecting business before the year end 2016. but again Govt started it from Zero. Amazing. Peoples & Technologies in other world growing in days but here in Pakistan it take years!!!! Now someone will go HC or SC & again take Stay!!!