<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "></div><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Hi,</div><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">The move to digital is similar to the fact that all marine cables terminate in one location at the coast, an opportunity to install a Kill switch.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;
">NMG & RMG have objected to working with Signet right from the beginning but have never put forth a convincing argument why they wanted a different distributor of the digital signal apart from that it needs to be an independent player.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">Who is more independent than a Chinese, they make up 1 out of every 5 human </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">beings, a distributor owned by a section of the media houses is definitely not independent. The winning in this fight must be the consumer who currently only received KBC because the other media houses believe that it is not economically viable to put up a must in those far flung regions.</font></div><div><font
class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; ">Transmission infrastructure has ceased to be a competitive advantage and its time that the management of NMG & RMG accept the change in the status qua and spend their resources in purchasing local productions to the required 40% of programming and the rest on the Oga movies</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3"><br></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; ">It is a basic human right for me to receive clear radio and TV signal wherever I am in the country so long as I have a TV set, be it a Great Wall (another great Chinese import) or a 72" LED 3D media device a situation that cannot be left to the whims of
occupants of corporate board rooms whose mandate is to maximise profit.</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">Regards<br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">Tuwache ujeuri, we cannot make bicycles so we import them from chine, we cannot make ploughs so we import them from China, we cannot make roads so we import them from China, so since we have been unable to cover the country with analog TV signal doesn't it follow that we should import them from China.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3"> </font></div><font
class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">Robert Yawe</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">KAY System Technologies Ltd</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">Phoenix House, 6th Floor</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">Kenya</font><br><br><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696<div><br></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr
size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> [ Brainiac ] <arebacollins@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wed, 20 July, 2011 10:20:50<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [kictanet] Digital TV signal Distribution row<br></font><br>I wish elective office was also competitive against the chinese.... Then we would see who would have the last laugh.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 12:15 AM, Jotham Kilimo Mwale <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:jokilimo@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:jokilimo@yahoo.com">jokilimo@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font:inherit;" valign="top">Methinks we only have part of the story ... from the losers. I would wait for more information and a balanced story before making conclusions.<br>
<br>Regards,<br>Jotham<div class="im"><br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 7/19/11, Solomon Mbũrũ Kamau <i><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:solo.mburu@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:solo.mburu@gmail.com">solo.mburu@gmail.com</a>></i></b> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;">
<div class="im"><br>From: Solomon Mbũrũ Kamau <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:solo.mburu@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:solo.mburu@gmail.com">solo.mburu@gmail.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: [kictanet] Digital TV signal Distribution row<br></div>To: <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:jokilimo@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:jokilimo@yahoo.com">jokilimo@yahoo.com</a><div class="im">
<br>Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank" href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>><br>Date: Tuesday, July 19, 2011, 11:25 PM<br><br></div><div><div>
<div></div><div class="h5">I saw the same on NTV news.<br>And I think this is all because both NTV and RMS had tendered for the<br>licence only for some Chinese firm to win it through some unclear<br>means.<br><br>I only wonder
why this is so and why the government had to handpick<br>the Chinese to do this.<br><br><br>/me/<br><br>On 20/07/2011, Philip Adar <<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://mc/compose?to=philip.adar@gmail.com">philip.adar@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> When you see "technicality" card being brandished, it simply means no one<br>> spoke to any body!<br>><br>> It will take generations before "we" learn to put our national interest<br>> above individualistic short-term gain interest. It is terrible, it is bad!<br>
><br>> Regards<br>> Philip<br>><br>> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 7:53 AM, aki <<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://mc/compose?to=aki275@gmail.com">aki275@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>>> Just been reading this article,<br>
>> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Corporate+News/Nation++Royal+Media+lose+appeal+for+signal+distribution+licence/-/539550/1204274/-/14gbqmu/-/index.html">http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Corporate+News/Nation++Royal+Media+lose+appeal+for+signal+distribution+licence/-/539550/1204274/-/14gbqmu/-/index.html</a>,<br>
>> and the print lacks the details but also a reflection is what is happening<br>>> in developing countries.<br>>><br>>> Did the local media group have the technical and financial capability to<br>
>> operate signal distribution platforms and roll out the services, yet got<br>>> dropped out because of tender technicalities. How is this possible? Are we<br>>> saying kenyans are totally incapable of understanding the requirements or<br>
>> commitments of such national projects?<br>>><br>>> I hope the affected parties do an indepth review of why they lost out
and<br>>> share that information with kenyans. We need to know, because I'm sure the<br>>> local media groups were also going to buy technology platforms and<br>>> implement<br>>> roll out so issues like delays due to internal manufacture or creation do<br>
>> not even arise.<br>>><br>>> Some thoughts.<br>>><br>>> Thank you.<br>>><br>>> _______________________________________________<br>>> kictanet mailing list<br>>> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://mc/compose?to=kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><br>
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