TATA Sky set-top box (Facebook)The latest way to reduce your monthly TV bill is by choosing add-on, mini packs provided by Direct-to-the-home (DTH) service providers. Tata Sky, which has been performing better than most other players in the field, is now offering a slew of regional add-on, mini packs, as reported by Telecom Talk.
The packs have been introduced in regional languages such as Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali, and cost as low as Rs 5. Through this move, Tata Sky is looking to boost its regional offering.
Sports and music based packs have also been introduced and are also up on offer.
Some of the new add-on packs include the Tamil Regional HD pack for Rs 164, Tamil Mini HD Pack for Rs 81, Telugu Regional and Mini HD pack for Rs 216 and Rs 90 respectively, none of which are cheap. Also, the 13 new packs that have been introduced are HD.
Apart from these regional language add-on plans, there is also a new English Movies HD Mini pack of Rs 162 which ships 12 channels.
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