SouthTel mum on failure to launch
SouthTel, a satellite pay-TV hopeful that promised to launch a push-based video-on-demand (VOD) service in South Africa by “early 2012”, has not launched and is not commenting on why.
Toward the end of June 2011, SouthTel told MyBroadband that they were trialling the service and planned to launch a commercial service in a month or two from then.
In September 2011, SouthTel CEO Oscar Dube said that it was delaying its commercial launch to Q4 2011 to “make sure [their] product is functioning 100%”.
The last time anything was forthcoming from SouthTel was in a media report that quoted “insiders” as saying that the launch date was pushed back again due to, among other things, the problems experienced by MultiChoice when it launched its DStv BoxOffice VOD service.
SouthTel reportedly had the content agreements in place to roll out with more than 150 hours of HD content per month, and planned to launch in “early 2012”.
The first quarter of 2012 has come and gone, SouthTel has not launched, and neither CEO Oscar Dube, nor project manager Pieter Ferreira are responding to requests for comment.
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