Icasa cracking down on Sentech broadcasting monopoly

[Daniel Puchert]

Crackdown on broadcasting monopoly in South Africa

State-owned electronic communications and network services provider Sentech has been found to have a monopoly on the distribution of TV, AM and FM radio broadcasting frequencies.

This is according to the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa's (Icasa) findings on the signal distribution market inquiry report, which covers the period between 2010 and 2020.

 

[ToxicBunny]

Crackdown on broadcasting monopoly in South Africa

State-owned electronic communications and network services provider Sentech has been found to have a monopoly on the distribution of TV, AM and FM radio broadcasting frequencies.

This is according to the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa's (Icasa) findings on the signal distribution market inquiry report, which covers the period between 2010 and 2020.

Fsck me!

Siriaas? Who would ever have guessed.

 

[Fuzzbox]

Stop interfering.

 

[Bad Ballie]

End State owned anything, they all enjoy unfair monopolies.

 

[IamNoone]

Multichoice complaining about not being able to sell AM/FM spectrum.

 

[elf_lord_ZC5]

The usual African schitt show.

 

[Swa]

Icasa believes that this market failure is due to the nature of the market, such as high sunk costs and barriers to entry, which create the characteristics of a natural monopoly.

You don't say. StarSat anyone?

 

[Brian_G]

The usual African schitt show.

Yep, and you'd think their socialist agenda would love the current arrangement... veery strange indeed.

 

[FiestaST]

Lol

https://twitter.com/x/status/1851555882217161043

 

[IamNoone]

Lol

https://twitter.com/x/status/1851555882217161043

DSTV has been holding a monopoly on sports rights for years and yet...

Guess it all goes according to how much you can pay the ones who make the decisions.

 

[Randomwasavailable]

They failed to pay their protection money recently, now they must pay.