[kictanet] Kenya’s digital TV migration: These days, empty-handed people don’t win

[Grace Githaiga]

On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that media houses and the Communications Authority of Kenya should go, sit down over coffee, and agree on a date for the complete switch-over to digital TV within 90 days.
...The digital migration debacle in Kenya, therefore speaks to a bigger problem…and to a solution. Why did the Chinese firm, Star Times, beat the local competition? Was it hostility against the local media by someone in government and an attempt to “fix” them? Did kola nut change hands?We don’t know, but there are lessons that Kenyan media and private businesses need to take away from this episode. In the world today, disinterested, purely public-good driven policy by governments is rare.
http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Kenyas-digital-TV-migration/-/440808/2471696/-/3wahgi/-/index.html 		 	   		  
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