Uganda’s GTV customers will have the chance to exchange their now-redundant decoders for newer versions as pay-TV is rolled out across the country.
According to Mohamed Jeneby, MD of Wananchi Satellite Limited, Zuku TV will be changing its GTV decoders when it officially launches its pay service in August 2011.
“We are going to replace the GTV decoders with ours. The owners will only pay ZUKU subscriptions for one month,” he said at a meeting with local journalists at the launch of the product.
GTV collapsed in 2009 due to financial uncertainty and handed over about 50 000 customers in Uganda.
Wananchi hopes the new pay-TV structure will revive more than 50 000 former GTV customers.
Wananchi Group CEO Richard Bell says that the company has already invested nearly $170 million in satellite and fibre optics infrastructure in order to provide pay service in East Africa.
“The company will start marketing its products and services this week, following a distribution agreement it signed with Simba Telecom on Friday,” says Bell.
Andrew Matapare
Congratulations to ZUKU and i hope Ugandans will get value for money from your services.
The reason why most people bought GTV decoders was to emable them access the English Premier League and other competitive leagues, some entertainment and local content. I have scanned through the menu you intend to put up. You are not any close to the taste and wishes of thousands of former GTV clients. Please why dont you do more research!
I just hope that the new pay tv service provider will enable me pay for only what I consume. I mean, paying for only those channels that I watch and not all the junk! I mean, of what use is it to pay for say, 50 channels, when I only view five a month.