Shake up at Sentech looming

[rpm]

Shake up at Sentech

Minister of Communications advises immediate and drastic action to avoid Sentech collapse

 

[Slooth]

Out with the old, in with the new but still the tax money flows in.

 

[dominic]

about ********* time

The task team made a four suggestions as to how to solve Sentech’s problems:

1. Reposition Sentech in terms of its core competence as broadcasting signal distributor

option 1 please.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

The task team also offered strategic recommendations:

1. Exploitation of Sentech’s unused licenses through public- private partnerships
2. Clarity regarding Sentech’s funding going forward
3. Sentech should remain responsible for encoding and multiplexing
4. Lobby government to develop legislation to guarantee its position as the preferred supplier of broadcast signal in SA
5. Sentech should discontinue all loss making ventures
6. Government should urgently address Sentech’s DTT infrastructure shortfall

Options 1 and 5. Maybe Sentech can partnership with NeeTel to give people a chance to use their old routers once more?

 

[rpm]

I would like to see that Sentech's unused spectrum is either taken back and redistributed or that they make work of the suggestion: “Exploitation of Sentech’s unused licenses through public-private partnerships”

That spectrum is simply lying there, with the only benefit to consumers being Screamer Telecoms’ WiMax offering. With 50 MHz in the 2.6 GHz spectrum band and 56MHz of 3.5 GHz spectrum I am sure they can accommodate quite a few guys.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Another option would be an enforced "use it or lose it" policy.

Meaning if you're not using allocated spectrum at all, then you'll lose it.

 

[getafix33]

The task team also offered strategic recommendations:

1. Exploitation of Sentech’s unused licenses through public- private partnerships
2. Clarity regarding Sentech’s funding going forward
3. Sentech should remain responsible for encoding and multiplexing
4. Lobby government to develop legislation to guarantee its position as the preferred supplier of broadcast signal in SA
5. Sentech should discontinue all loss making ventures
6. Government should urgently address Sentech’s DTT infrastructure shortfall

7. Fire Nyandas useless ASS.
8. Use some of Nyandas somewhat dodgy earnings from his other companies to fund Sentech.

 

[grok]

The task team found that Sentech’s situation was partly a cause of the new legal and regulatory regime that has opened up the market for new entrants. They added that a lack of a clear and comprehensive ICT framework, a misaligned business strategy in support of national service delivery agenda and the state of the market in which Sentech operates all contributed to the parastatal’s decline.

In other words they had no cooking clue!!

 

[longboy]

Use it or lose it policy sounds good.

 

[guest2013-1]

And this is the POWER of consumers. **** YOU SENTECH

 

[yavahn]

Use it or lose it policy sounds good.

agreed

 

[ic]

about ********* time



option 1 please.

Ditto.

I would like to see that Sentech's unused spectrum is either taken back and redistributed or that they make work of the suggestion: “Exploitation of Sentech’s unused licenses through public-private partnerships”

That spectrum is simply lying there, with the only benefit to consumers being Screamer Telecoms’ WiMax offering. With 50 MHz in the 2.6 GHz spectrum band and 56MHz of 3.5 GHz spectrum I am sure they can accommodate quite a few guys.

Ditto, except my crystal balls tell me that partnering with Sentech has very little chance of breaking even let alone turning a profit.

Options 1 and 5. Maybe Sentech can partnership with NeeTel to give people a chance to use their old routers once more?

MyWireless routers? - they are being used - as paperweights!

# Sentech to transfer its non-broadcasting ECNS and non broadcasting ECS businesses to Infosat

Infosat - never heard of it [IIRC].

 

[geoffr]

I would like to see that Sentech's unused spectrum is either taken back and redistributed or that they make work of the suggestion: “Exploitation of Sentech’s unused licenses through public-private partnerships”

That spectrum is simply lying there, with the only benefit to consumers being Screamer Telecoms’ WiMax offering. With 50 MHz in the 2.6 GHz spectrum band and 56MHz of 3.5 GHz spectrum I am sure they can accommodate quite a few guys.

The scary thing is that a number of ISPs tried to partner with Sentech. It was just impossible to negotiate with them. They continually spun their wheels, and whenever it appeared that a partnership agreement was possible, Sentech would do an about turn. It is frightening to think that Sentech could not see the benefit of partnering with some of the dynamic ISPs who tried to work together with them. I think Sentech were just unwilling to acknowledge that they did not have what it would take to hack it on their own.

It is probably fair to say that Sentech's senior management should mostly have been sacked a long time ago.