Test for cellular pay-TV venture

Vodacom will not be competing with the country’s only pay-television operator.
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Seems that companies who has a monopoly in this country has sign a kind of a deal not to compete with each other.
The Independent Communications Authority of SA invited bids for pay-television licences at the end of January, paving the way for competition with Naspers-owned MultiChoice.
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If I remebered correctly that I read a while back that the SNO are also not going to compete with Telkom. Will there be ever competition in this country ?
 
what a waste!

Why are they (Icasa) letting the country waste money on DVB-H? Where is the rollout plan for DVB-T! I don't want digital television on my 6 cm cell phone screen: I want it on my 32 cm television screen.:mad:
 
mibloem said:
Why are they (Icasa) letting the country waste money on DVB-H? Where is the rollout plan for DVB-T! I don't want digital television on my 6 cm cell phone screen: I want it on my 32 cm television screen.:mad:
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i dont care where i get it they can put it on my microwave screen for all i care, just anything more than sabc and etv will be good for me at this stage hey...
 
Who cares, it won't be affordable anyway. Not with Multichoice in the mix.
 
Pay pay pay. That's all they want, and we're so gullible we fall for it. Why not offer it as a free service to existing DSTV subscribers? And non-DSTV subscribers pay a nominal fee since they won't be getting all the channels.
 
*sigh*

Multichoice is now involved with Vodacom, we already know they will be the content provider for Telkom's Triple Play, and they are still the only pay tv content provider in SA. Not to mention that they still haven't upgraded their services to the Users (HDTV, 5.1 Surround, lacking movies, exclusivity on Sport, etc etc), all the while charging more and more every year.
 
Highflyer_GP said:
Pay pay pay. That's all they want, and we're so gullible we fall for it. Why not offer it as a free service to existing DSTV subscribers? And non-DSTV subscribers pay a nominal fee since they won't be getting all the channels.
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Or let the advertising pay for it.
 
Is that what they're calling it these days? You're right, Multichoice has no challenge with that line-up.
 
Crummy_Gummy said:
Is that what they're calling it these days? You're right, Multichoice has no challenge with that line-up.
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Fact of the matter unfortunatly MIH owns just about all the broadcast rights to anything worth watching nobody can compete with them at them moment...and they know it...
 
I'm not so sure about that, exclusivity is an expensive thing and they wouldn't have bought it if they didn't need it - which they haven't. Maybe theres a loophole there.
 
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