What about competition?

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What about competition?

The communications and broadcasting regulator has entrenched MultiChoice’s monopoly and missed an opportunity to introduce competition to the broadcasting sector, say stakeholders.
 
I wonder what their bonusses are like, it's almost Christmas. Icasa officials rolling in the money while we have to suffer
 
This just tells me that ICASA and the DoC are merely incompetent and not just necessarily greedy. There are no little government fingers in the Multichoice pie yet they give them as much liberty as Telkom.
 
However, the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) says allowing the new subscription broadcasters, licensed in 2007, to offer channels would give them an unfair advantage.
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Unfair advantage to who? I doubt its Multichoice as they've had an unfair advantage for the last 20 years! I assume they're worried about the demise of the SABC if other competitors get to jump in ahead of the parastatal.
 
its funny how they keep missing the opportunities as with a previous article as well, they also "missed the opportunity"

icasa you stupid bastards
 
What Icasa failed again? surprise surprise! Who would have guessed!

ICASA = ANC epic fail.
 
And after analogue TV is switched off?

I already recieve seven channels on analogue, so surely there will be space for additional multiplexes later on?
 
So long Goodbye (Monochoice )

There is an alternative.

There is salvation.


You need to send your kids to Uni.

An unknown person with an unknown connection attends an unknown Uni.

Due to having a bit more loafing time on their hands , I was able to discover a "Juke-Box" of 500Gb loaded to the brim with "entertainment" :D

Where they do it , How they do it -- I have NO idea. All that leaching and raping of bandwidth.

So I proceeded to learn how to connect the laptop up to the big LCD TV screen.

Anyway I now have "entertainment" till the end of the year -- good stuff to.:erm::D

So the moral of the story -- send your kids to Uni. It is better than giving hard earned blood sweat and tears to monopolies.

It is good for your kids ( they might learn something )
good for the Uni -- (they get some cash) --
good for the country ( more educated intellectuals to screw things up )
good for all the rest of us (not having to support monopolies any more)

SEACOM and TENET agree with me and are now going to give your kids at Uni unlimited bandwidth.

Go purchase that terabyte "Juke-Box" now -- stock is running out fast.;)


MW
 
MidnightWizard said:
There is an alternative.

There is salvation.


You need to send your kids to Uni.

An unknown person with an unknown connection attends an unknown Uni.

Due to having a bit more loafing time on their hands , I was able to discover a "Juke-Box" of 500Gb loaded to the brim with "entertainment" :D

Where they do it , How they do it -- I have NO idea. All that leaching and raping of bandwidth.

So I proceeded to learn how to connect the laptop up to the big LCD TV screen.

Anyway I now have "entertainment" till the end of the year -- good stuff to.:erm::D

So the moral of the story -- send your kids to Uni. It is better than giving hard earned blood sweat and tears to monopolies.

It is good for your kids ( they might learn something )
good for the Uni -- (they get some cash) --
good for the country ( more educated intellectuals to screw things up )
good for all the rest of us (not having to support monopolies any more)

SEACOM and TENET agree with me and are now going to give your kids at Uni unlimited bandwidth.

Go purchase that terabyte "Juke-Box" now -- stock is running out fast.;)


MW
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LOL, it's true though. I wonder if it was possible to add up all the "entertainment" to be found on corporate networks how much it would add up to. Thus it stands to reason [by your logic], that after going to uni the educated kid would be able to sustain the entertainments needs from the corporate network too, hehe.
 
ICASA - change feet

The only thing ICASA seems to have experience in is changing feet from one screw up to another. First Vodacom, now Multichoice. Knowing Multichoice they have probably offered the ICASA councillors jobs once their contract are over. But I suppose you have to give MC credit - they are also running the Digital Dzonga. They are just too smart for ICASA.
 
What is independent about Icasa ?
Has Icasa ever done anything useful for the consumer ?
Can they even spell competition ?
Who pays their salaries, SABC/MC perhaps ?
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but they will still have to work through a SABS STB. Gotcha
 
Naspers CEO Koos Bekker says ‘competition is unlikely to mean much’

does that mean the competition isn't there, or it's not up to much?
 
The problem is that ICASA is too concerned with stuff the competitors themselves should worry about. ICASA tries too hard to make sure everybody has a financially viable space to operate in. It is NOT their job and if by some mean streak of luck they do have this job in writing, then it should be removed. ICASA should administer the spectrum and not its economic viability. If somebody wants it, and it is there to be had, it should be given, whether they fail in business or not. When such a business fails, the frequencies they occupied can be given to another company.

ICASA IS ****ING UP COMPETITION!!!! :mad:
 
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