[kictanet] 3 Media houses protest Majanja's Digital Migration Ruling

[Bernard Kioko [Bernsoft Group]]

Christopher,

 

I am an ardent supporter of the migration but I need to ask.

 

Have you issued any 3rd license to anyone?

 

Regards 

 

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Of Wambua, Christopher
Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2013 12:54 PM
To: bkioko at bernsoft.com
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Subject: Re: [kictanet] 3 Media houses protest Majanja's Digital Migration
Ruling
Importance: High

 

You will recall that the 2nd licence for digital broadcasting signal
distribution was issued out competitively through an open tender. Some of
the local media houses expressed interest in the tender but lost out to the
licence by the Pan-Africa Network Group in an open and transparent tendering
process.  They subsequently lodged an appeal to the Public Procurement
Oversight Authority (PPOA) which was dismissed as lacking any merit.

 

The two firms have set up digital platforms in Nairobi and other major towns
in country to support the migration from analogue to digital TV
broadcasting.  The issue of awarding the licences to a Chinese firm and a
subsidiary of a firm on its deathbed is therefore a non-issue. 

 

Best regards

 

Christopher Wambua

Manager - Communications

Consumer and Public Affairs Department

Communications Commission of Kenya

P.O. Box 14448 NAIROBI 00800

Tel: +254 20 4242209

 <mailto:info at cck.go.ke> info at cck.go.ke

 <http://www.cck.go.ke> www.cck.go.ke

 

 

 

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Kivuva
Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2013 12:25 PM
To: Wambua, Christopher
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
Subject: Re: [kictanet] 3 Media houses protest Majanja's Digital Migration
Ruling

 

On 23 December 2013 19:01, Ali Hussein <ali at hussein.me.ke> wrote:

Brinkmanship.

 

To be fair though I can't help thinking how skewed we are as a country that
the two digital signals are:-

 

1. Controlled by a Chinese company

2. Controlled by a defunct media company that is at its death bed..

 

+1 Ali

 

Capital flight is a KILLER of any economy.

 

 

Where have we go we wrong? 

Ali Hussein

 

+254 0770 906375 / 0713 601113

 

"I fear the day technology will surpass human interaction. The world will
have a generation of idiots".  ~ Albert Einstein

 

 

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