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East Africa

Digital Switch in Kenya leaves 1.3 mln citizens without TV

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More than 1.3 million Kenyan citizens are unable to watch television due to the country switching from analogue to digital broadcasting. According to the The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) only 2.2 million Kenyan citizens have acquired set-top boxes...
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Ghana to impose TV license fee by end of year

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Ghana’s government announced that it pans to levy a television license fee on operators by the end of the year. The move is likely to be met with concern as companies begin to scramble for ways to cover the...
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MultiChoice slashes rates for Kenya

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Kenya’s leading high definition television operator MultiChoice Kenya has announced a price reduction of its DStv HD decoder by some 48 percent. The announcement means the decoder has been reduced in price to KES 2,499 from KES 4,800. The rate...
People

MultiChoice Africa appoints new CEO

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MultiChoice Africa has appointed Tim Jacobs, formerly chief financial officer of the pay-TV segment at MultiChoice, as the new CEO, replacing Nico Meyer who left the company for "personal reasons". Meyer left the group's employ on 31 March, MultiChoice's GM...
Southern Africa

South Africa: Govt. completes digital migration policy

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South Africa's Department of Communications (DoC) is set to publish the final Broadcasting Digital Migration (BDM) policy in the Government Gazette before 20 March. The new policy seeks to clarify the use of control systems in set-top boxes (STBs)...
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Nigeria: MultiChoice blames inflation for DStv price hike

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According to The Punch, MultiChoice Nigeria has placed the blame on inflation as the cause of the latest DStv price hike in Nigeria. According to a statement made available by DStv, it has taken into account many factors. Such...
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SES joins the fight against Ebola in West Africa

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SES has launched an Ebola-focused education channel to be broadcast via satellite in West Africa. The channel, called “Fight Ebola”, will be available to both free-to-air TV viewers and Pay TV subscribers and transmitted from the ASTRA 2F satellite...
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Latest News

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Africa’s digital payments projected to reach $1.5 trillion by 2030

Africa’s digital payments economy is on a rapid growth trajectory, projected to reach $1.5 trillion by 2030, according to...
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