[kictanet] The battle for control of Kenyan Digital airspace

[Martin Gicheru]

CA has ruled that all licensed boxes will have to carry all 40 FTA
channels, there's 77 licensees. The loophole the three media houses were
looking to explore were the part where Startimes and Gotv are both paytv
boxes and make noise while at the same time marketing their coming soon
boxes. Notice they don't mention others that are exclusively FTA boxes.

Soko iko huru, and there are serious contenders for good content within
Signet that would worry the three.

CA has instructed them to cease passing that message onwards till case is
decided.

Regards,
Martin Gicheru
Editor Techweez

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 5:12 PM, Barrack Otieno via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> Afro Cinema continues.
>
> Best Regards
>
> On 1/20/15, Mwendwa Kivuva via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> wrote:
> > Some madness is brewing in the battle to control the Kenyan digital
> > airspace. The following advert has been running after every 30 minutes in
> > all the 4 TV stations:
> >
> >
> > "Viewers do not be duped into purchasing GOTv and StarTimes pay TV
> set-top
> > boxes as a means to access and watch Citizen TV, NTV, QTV, and KTN ... We
> > are finding ways to stop this infringement of copyright, we are soon
> > launching our own set-top boxes to distribute our free to air channels".
> >
> > My questions are these:
> > 1. Do we need multiple set top boxes to watch content from the three
> > different consortium?
> > 2. Is it illegal to watch Citizen TV, NTV, and KTN using non-branded top
> > boxes, or even GOTv and Startimes?
> > 3. Is it that the 3 media houses have seen there is no way they will be
> > able to sell the one million set top boxes they have purchased thus they
> > want to offload electric waste to innocent Kenyan viewers?
> > 4. Is there any Kenya willing to buy a set-top box with only 4 stations?
> > 5. What is the stand of CA on this?
> >
> >
> > Does it matter if I watch the TV using LG, Samsung, Sanyo, Greatwall,
> > Panasonic, Sony ... because the Set-top box technology is just an
> extension
> > of the TV, and anybody with a build in DVBT2 TV set will be able to watch
> > this content without a set-top box anyway.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > ______________________
> > Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya
> >
> > "There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on
> > higher ground in that lifetime." - Maxwell Anderson
> >
>
>
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