[kictanet] AS DN announces their set top boxes where are the two CAs? COFEK Response

[Mwendwa Kivuva]

On 13 January 2015 at 16:01, Consumers Federation of Kenya (COFEK) via
kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> Dear Mr Mbugua,
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> Many thanks for your well-informed (... save for the unfair attack on us at
> the end) critique (which we have re-published on our website). Clearly,
> both Communications and Competition Authorities have allowed excessive
> leeway to the trio of KTN, NTV and CitizenTv to stifle industry competition
> to the pain of consumers.
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> It is unfortunate that the 3 media houses declined adverts of their
> competitors - but wake up to a prominent back page story of "advanced set
> top boxes" being "on the way" as if DVBT-2 type-approved STB's don't exist.
> Kenya is using DVBT-2. Perhaps the consortium will be using DVBT-3 or 4 or
> whichever qualifies to be "advanced".
>

The accepted standard is DVB T2. There is no leeway to adopt any other
version.


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Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya

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