[kictanet] Cofek to sue CCK for defaulting on television deal

[ICT Researcher]

Simpler analogy...

Suppose one lives not so far away from Muthaiga Country Club. That person claims can never afford matatu fare to be visiting beautiful open air Uhuru Park in the city centre. Muthaiga Club offers the person a more affordable membership and a bonus 2-week free lift to the club, even after their membership has expired.

The person says NO! "Every person, by virtue of being resident in Kenya, must be granted free lift and unfetted access to all open spaces at Muthaiga Country Club at all times, save for accessing inside the Club House(s)."

Well, well, well ...  very humourous.  





On Sunday, January 5, 2014 11:06 AM, ICT Researcher <ict.researcher at yahoo.com> wrote:
 
List of Type Approved DVB-T2 Set Top Boxes and Authorised Vendors 
AS AT SEPTEMBER 2013
FREE TO AIR SET TOP BOXES
Free to air set top boxes (FTA) describes set top boxes 
(decoders) that do not require subscriptions. Allowing any person with 
the appropriate receiving equipment to receive the digital signal and 
view or listen to the content without requiring other ongoing cost or 
one-off fee. 

Read more: http://www.digitalkenya.go.ke/list-of-type-approved-dvb-t2-set-top-boxes-and-authorised-vendors






On Sunday, January 5, 2014 10:30 AM, Grace Githaiga <ggithaiga at hotmail.com> wrote:
 
@ Ali, so this option 2 means there is going to be a monthly charge for the FTA channels? If this is the case, then Lucy's house manager is right. 



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From: ali at hussein.me.ke
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2014 08:54:42 +0300
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Cofek to sue CCK for defaulting on television deal
CC: kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke
To: ggithaiga at hotmail.com


Startimes has had an Ad running where they are offering two options

1. FTA one which I think is substantially higher. I think almost 5k
2. Subscription one which is like 2k.



Ali Hussein

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On Jan 4, 2014, at 10:26 PM, Kivuva <Kivuva at transworldafrica.com> wrote:


This report seems to contradict CCK's communications manager Mr.
>Wambua who said today on another thread on this list that all
>subscriber-based digital set boxes have FTA channels for end users who
>don't want to pay subscription fees
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>On 04/01/2014, Grace Githaiga <ggithaiga at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>“Customers who fail to pay subscription fees on time will
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>continue to access the must-carry free-to-air services (FTA) for a
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>period of at least two weeks,” read a letter from CCK director-general
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>Francis Wangusi (pictured, below left) to pay-TV providers.
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>Through
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>the letter, CCK is reneging on an earlier agreement with Cofek that
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>made it compulsory for pay-TV companies to give subscribers access to
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>all free-to-air channels, even without a paid-up subscription.
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>This
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>agreement saw the providers introduce a new range of decoders that
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>would allow customers view all the FTA channels – KBC, NTV, KTN, K24 and
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>Citizen TV for free.
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>http://www.nation.co.ke/business/-/996/2134512/-/h3rhar/-/index.html
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