Hi Robert, I'd like to add some comments inline below. :-)<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 1:10 PM, robert yawe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div style="FONT-FAMILY: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; COLOR: black; 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>
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<div><em>It makes perfect sense that broadcasters would also like the chance to choose and even own the distribution facilities. As long as they can hold it together and not affect national growth, where is the problem in this? </em></div>
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<div><font size="3" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">Who is more independent than a Chinese, they make up 1 out of every 5 human </font><font 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>
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<div><em>I thought regulation exists and that also self regulation was the mode of broadcasters independence. Do we now need a third party to enforce independence? And the third party really seems like a referree who has no function in local regulation/de-regulation and can never contribute to the advancement of the sector.</em></div>
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<div><em>KBC used taxpayers money to fulfill national goals, this is the minimum we can expect from it. Asking private sector to use funds to broadcast nationally, what are the cost implications? At any given route out of nairobi, I think the traffic capacity is that of DS3 circuits, this costs are huge and probably charged per Kilometre. Does the Govt allow the private stations to use the National Fiber Optic capacities at very subsidized rates? I remember KBC in Timboroah, Eldoret as a powerful transmitter. How much did it cost to broadcast the signal from Nairobi, all the way to Eldoret, including satellite uplinking from Nairobi and downlinking in e.g. Eldoret. </em></div>
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<div><em>As part of national policies, was expansion included in the license requirements over a period say e.g. 5 years or so or left to market forces to determine?</em></div>
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<div><font size="3" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">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>
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<div><em>Welcome to the consumerism society that we have been made for many decades due to governments policies which also created private sectors that will only meet development until retail and as far as human reosurces are concerned. The basis is of __Import to retail. Because it seems goverments really do nothing much--except find external partners to initially fund and invest in their projects, collect taxes at importation, collect taxes through VAT such as goods and services etc. Then spend these amounts on what they think will make us even bigger markets of goods and services so that they can collect more taxes. I believe there are even books out there that predict Africa as a very large import market. Interestingly, I think we will pay the ultimate price in future for becoming brain-dead zombies who cannot even start a motor vehicle without an owners manual. There are no policies or incentives that encourage localization. Oil producing developing countries have fuel shortages at the domestic pumps, is just the tip of the whole story. My amatuer views on this.</em></div>
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<div>Rgds.</div>
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