<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422358893049_15579" dir="ltr"><span>Dear All</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422358893049_15579" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422358893049_15595">The cost charged by Signet is affordable on an open opportunity platform. The delay in migration gives the old boys an advantage since advertises are still not convinced off the viewership on the digital platform.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422358893049_15579" dir="ltr"><br></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Tuesday, January 27, 2015 11:24 AM, Walubengo J via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv5960751024"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div>@ Mwendwa,</div><div id="yiv5960751024yui_3_16_0_1_1422334976034_18365"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv5960751024yui_3_16_0_1_1422334976034_18364">You are right it should be exceedingly cheap for Jane to transmit on the digital platform. Otherwise the whole essence of going digital is lost. Here's my other take on the issue @</div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv5960751024yui_3_16_0_1_1422334976034_18425"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv5960751024yui_3_16_0_1_1422334976034_18375">TV consumers should not be locked in, but neither should broadcasters - Walubengo - nation.co.ke <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" id="yiv5960751024yui_3_16_0_1_1422334976034_18374" target="_blank" href="http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/blogs/dot9/walubengo/-/2274560/2602512/-/10d292yz/-/index.html">TV consumers should not be locked in, but neither should broadcasters</a><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv5960751024link-enhancr-attachment yiv5960751024link-enhancr-element" id="yiv5960751024enhancrCard_0" style="width:450px;font-family:'Georgia', 'Times', 'Times New Roman', 'serif';margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;background-color:#ffffff;"><table class="yiv5960751024link-enhancr-element" id="yiv5960751024yui_3_16_0_1_1422334976034_18429" style="width:450px;height:170px;display:block;" 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style="height:1px;background-color:#e5e5e5;font-size:1px;line-height:0px;"> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div id="yiv5960751024yui_3_16_0_1_1422334976034_18363"><span></span></div><br clear="none"> <div id="yiv5960751024yui_3_16_0_1_1422334976034_18348" style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"> <div id="yiv5960751024yui_3_16_0_1_1422334976034_18347" style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"> <div class="yiv5960751024yqt4361224082" id="yiv5960751024yqt79455"><div dir="ltr" id="yiv5960751024yui_3_16_0_1_1422334976034_18346"> <hr size="1"> <font id="yiv5960751024yui_3_16_0_1_1422334976034_18345" face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Mwendwa Kivuva via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke><br clear="none"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">To:</span></b> jwalu@yahoo.com <br clear="none"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Cc:</span></b> ISOC Kenya Chapter <isoc@lists.my.co.ke>; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> <br clear="none"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, January 23, 2015 1:23 PM<br clear="none"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [kictanet] Fw: [isoc_ke] The battle for control of Kenyan Digital airspace<br clear="none"> </font> </div> <div class="yiv5960751024y_msg_container"><br clear="none"><div id="yiv5960751024"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="yiv5960751024gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv5960751024gmail_quote">On 23 January 2015 at 12:02, Network of non- formal Educational institutions <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:nnfeischools@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:nnfeischools@yahoo.com">nnfeischools@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv5960751024gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> We have also been paying Signet and Startimes monthly fees for carrying us and relaying our content to available free to air set boxes.</blockquote></div><br clear="none">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.</div><div class="yiv5960751024gmail_extra"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv5960751024gmail_extra">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?</div><div class="yiv5960751024gmail_extra"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv5960751024gmail_extra">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.</div><div class="yiv5960751024qtdSeparateBR"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv5960751024yqt5598065778" id="yiv5960751024yqtfd26116"><div class="yiv5960751024gmail_extra"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv5960751024gmail_extra">Regards<br clear="none"><br clear="all"><div><div class="yiv5960751024gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">______________________<br clear="none">Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya<br clear="none"><br clear="none">"There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime." - Maxwell Anderson<br clear="none"><div><br clear="none"></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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