A battle royale

Two factors make Telkom Media a strong contender; the first is its comprehensive fibre network that gives it the ability to deliver content to the home effectively and cheaply, and the second factor is the R7-billion that Telkom Media has been allocated to get its subscription broadcasting, video on demand and television via broadband (IPTV) services up and running.
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If this is true, then why the heck are out copper based Internet options so garsh darn expensive.
 
Lolol, they are all going to fail. They are all targeting the same market. So in 5 years time we'll have Multichoice (hell expensive with some decent content) and unPronouncable (cheap with nothing to worth watching)
 
Wyzak said:
Lolol, they are all going to fail. They are all targeting the same market. So in 5 years time we'll have Multichoice (hell expensive with some decent content) and unPronouncable (cheap with nothing to worth watching)
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With new content being developed annually there's no reason to expect that monochoice has the future locked up - Heroes premiering on SABC just goes to illustrate that.

If anything monochoice will be locked into old, unsuccessful shows that have already been pulled abroad due to poor ratings.
 
Matlou says Worldspace is not a true broadcaster because it just relays content, but this then raises questions about the difference between Worldspace and other applicants such as Deukom, who relay German television for German-speaking South Africans.
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Correct me if I am wrong but is ths not the same as "don't panic TV" and "Otherchoice" when they introduced the P*rn channel.
They never broadcasted the channel, they also relayed it as the satellite footprint was above South Africa.
 
Until now, Icasa has refused to discuss how many licences were up for grabs, but E-Sat warned that due to the massive costs of producing a quality pay-TV service, new entrants will need a large subscriber base to break even and there was therefore a high risk of failure if the market was over-licenced.
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How noble of him to spot that! IT ISN'T HIS FRIGGING BUSINESS!!!! Let the fools who don't prepare well get nailed! Survival of the fittest! It isn't ICASA's job to make sure every pay tv entrant is successful! Over licensing is great for the consumer! Dan Rosengarten is a clever man by doing this, but this is the evil side of business.

I don't know if anybody noticed, but eTV terrestrial SUCKS!!!! What the hell will they do to satellite??!!!???
 
Multichoice needs to try to get HBO and Comedy Central (maybe get SciFi back too).

Moaning to them on their forum makes no difference so I don't know why we're even doing it here.
 
potential new markets give potential new cash cows
 
It's sad to admit it, but the only submission that holds any kind of appeal whatsoever is TelkomMedia's IPTV.

The only other beacon of hope from this process is that competition will see a vast improvement in DSTV's value-for-money proposition. Our family watches 3-6 channels but pays for 100+ and to make matters worse still has to suffer endless advertising.
 
"BEC was given a license in Botswana, but have not started broadcasting yet?"

WOW, and they were so on fire and wanted to prove something especially to Multichoice. I am worried by that. What are the reasons they are not broadcasting? How do we know that if they granted the license they will be able to deliver?

We don't want chancers here. ICASA shouldn't just dish out licenses for the sake of it. We need to get guys that are serous about this sector.
 
Please please pretty please no Telkom media....can you imagine what that would be like? They would sell of airtime to other companies and charge us triple the amount!!!

And the SABC can kiss it's monopolistic rear. Why is everyone talking about entry level??? Why not a company that can take multichoice head on??? Better entertainment etc. Why oh why are we moving backwards aqain?
 
incaseofire said:
Please please pretty please no Telkom media....can you imagine what that would be like? They would sell of airtime to other companies and charge us triple the amount!!!

And the SABC can kiss it's monopolistic rear. Why is everyone talking about entry level??? Why not a company that can take multichoice head on??? Better entertainment etc. Why oh why are we moving backwards aqain?
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It's a Go-With-The-Flow situation. They're just following Telkom and Goverment. It seems to be working for them.
 
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