Rogue satellite TV group vows to defy Icasa

For the Rouges !!!!! THey have my backing 100%, I'm sorry, but ICASA should have done something along time ago, starting with helkom ... they should die a peacefull death ...
 
Its time ICASA got something back for everything they have dished out. Wonderful!
 
If there are no regulations regarding free to air satellite stuff then how can ICASA actually do anything?

Plus of course, its not a local company so ICASA can do nothing anyway.
 
ICASA are a bunch of bloody fools anyway.

We all know that; RE: Local Cap

I hate them so much because of that story alone!
 
In what ways is receiving their signal different to receiving radio short-wave transmissions? Are they illegal too?
 
I don't think ICASA can really do much other than confiscating the equipment at the consumer's premises. But if they do that, surely they gotta confiscate all the equipment of users running analogue satellite decoders as well? What, are they going to try and insist that only MultiChoice and Vivid decoders are valid now?

Luckily ICASA is a toothless monster; we witnessed that last year in the broadband space.
 
gotta love it. fkew ICASA, have you not dragged the country into the dark ages enuff.

anybody got a clue where one can find a listing of their free2air channels for SA?

cheers
 
EricsON said:
Luckily ICASA is a toothless monster; we witnessed that last year in the broadband space.
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Unfortunately ICASA is only toothless when is comes to big money, when it comes to the little guy they send in armed policemen.
 
EricsON said:
I don't think ICASA can really do much other than confiscating the equipment at the consumer's premises. But if they do that, surely they gotta confiscate all the equipment of users running analogue satellite decoders as well? What, are they going to try and insist that only MultiChoice and Vivid decoders are valid now?.
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Wouldn't that amount to implied censorship? We also don't know whether the station would target Southern Africa or South Africa specifically. In the former case ICASA probably does not have a leg to stand on.
The station can probably only be nailed if they do not adhere to international agreements such as frequency use, etc. but as they are using a satellite this is probably sorted out at a level completely different to ICASA's.
We may soon have the pleasure to see an ICASA "dance of powerlessness", which may teach them how the consumers feel most of the time.
 
ROFL

But it does not hold a broadcast licence in SA, a move Icasa believes will cost them.
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Don't forget that Multichoice also didn't apply for a license until years later. Not sure if they have one even now.

In years to come we'll probably uncover some ICASA deal to prop up MC's monopoly. Incompetence just doesn't fully explain why they do what they do.
 
Kind of gives the lie to premise that ICASA exists to serve the people.

I fail to see how attempting to stop a free2air satellite service is in the people's best interest.
 
Here's some more info:

The launch, which took place at the Melrose Arch Hotel in Johannesburg, will see consumers gaining access to 36 ‘exciting' channels – if they can afford buy a once-off package of a dish and a digital receiver at R1400.
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“All you have to do is to purchase your 88cm dish and a digital receiver at Space TV or Ellis and you are connected ‘for life' to the whole world.”
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Currently MSNBC Africa is on what is probably Africa's most powerful and biggest KU band satellite footprint, Eutelsat WSA at 7degrees East.
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http://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/66/21180.html
 
They're broadcasting to the whole of Southern Africa, meaning they're not just targeting SA. I'd like to see ICASA stop them. Ha.
 
“What can they do to stop us, short of shooting a satellite out of the sky or arresting people who have a satellite dish and decoder?
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Watch out for the particle beam, Free2View! :D:D:D
 
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