[kictanet] The battle for control of Kenyan Digital airspace

[Ali Hussein]

Barrack, Mwendwa and all

This is what happens when IMHO there is a flaw/gap in the regulatory/policy environment. This is the same as shared infrastructure. On the side of the four media houses I believe they have a right to have a commercial discussion with GOtv and the others since content drives advertising revenue. In the event that they disagree there must be a mechanism to resolve this. 

Interesting times to be at CA. I would love to be a fly on the wall in Matano Ndaro's office...:) 

Ali Hussein

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> On 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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