{"id":548887,"date":"2006-05-23T07:07:52","date_gmt":"2006-05-23T07:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/548887-test-for-cellular-pay-tv-venture.html"},"modified":"2006-05-23T07:07:52","modified_gmt":"2006-05-23T07:07:52","slug":"test-for-cellular-pay-tv-venture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/548887-test-for-cellular-pay-tv-venture.html","title":{"rendered":"Test for cellular pay-TV venture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">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. Vodacom last week received the licence to test digital video broadcasting handheld (DVB H) technology, a technical specification for taking broadcast services to handheld receivers. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">A joint statement from Vodacom and MultiChoice released yesterday said the cellular operator, the only one to seek a licence to date, was not preparing to compete with the pay-television operator and would in fact be party to the MultiChoice DVB-H trial. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Last week, MultiChoice and the country\u2019s cellphone operators \u2014 Vodacom, Cell C and MTN \u2014 announced their commitment to collaborate on DVB-H. This will see SA technologically ready well before the 2010 soccer showpiece. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Gryphon Asset Man agement portfolio manager Abri du Plessis said Vodacom\u2019s move was a way of \u201cpositioning itself for future opportunities\u201d. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">MultiChoice said it would distribute a limited number of DVB-H- enabled Sagem handsets free to Vodacom subscribers and to subscribers to other cellphone operators. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Inet-Bridge ||\u00a0 <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=44096\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font size=\"2\">Discuss this article<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOUTH African pay-television operator MultiChoice says Vodacom will not be competing with the country\u2019s only pay-television operator, despite the fact that the cellular operator received a test licence from the broadcasting authority last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548887"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}