[kictanet] Fw: [isoc_ke] The battle for control of Kenyan Digital airspace

[Mwendwa Kivuva]

On 23 January 2015 at 12:02, Network of non- formal Educational
institutions <nnfeischools at yahoo.com> wrote:

> We have also been paying Signet and Startimes monthly fees for carrying us
> and relaying our content to available free to air set boxes.


Jane, thank you for this. I need to understand something, do a digital
content provider like ElimuTV need to pay all digital signal providers for
them to be accessible by all set-top boxes? My understanding is if I buy
any box (say Samsutech set-top box), I will be able to watch all
non-subscription based TV stations. As per your email, it seems a content
provider has to pay all licensed digital carriers. This is is a very
expensive way of distributing content.

Let me understand, if you only paid Signet to carry your content, I would
not be able to access it via Startimes set-top box?

There is something fundamentally wrong with how we have structured policy
around the digital migration and we need to clearly define a set of
principles that must be adhered to by all players.

Regards

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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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