Barrack, Mwendwa and all

This is what happens when IMHO there is a flaw/gap in the regulatory/policy environment. This is the same as shared infrastructure. On the side of the four media houses I believe they have a right to have a commercial discussion with GOtv and the others since content drives advertising revenue. In the event that they disagree there must be a mechanism to resolve this. 

Interesting times to be at CA. I would love to be a fly on the wall in Matano Ndaro's office...:) 

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On Jan 20, 2015, at 5:12 PM, Barrack Otieno via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

Afro Cinema continues.

Best Regards

On 1/20/15, Mwendwa Kivuva via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Some madness is brewing in the battle to control the Kenyan digital
airspace. The following advert has been running after every 30 minutes in
all the 4 TV stations:


"Viewers do not be duped into purchasing GOTv and StarTimes pay TV set-top
boxes as a means to access and watch Citizen TV, NTV, QTV, and KTN ... We
are finding ways to stop this infringement of copyright, we are soon
launching our own set-top boxes to distribute our free to air channels".

My questions are these:
1. Do we need multiple set top boxes to watch content from the three
different consortium?
2. Is it illegal to watch Citizen TV, NTV, and KTN using non-branded top
boxes, or even GOTv and Startimes?
3. Is it that the 3 media houses have seen there is no way they will be
able to sell the one million set top boxes they have purchased thus they
want to offload electric waste to innocent Kenyan viewers?
4. Is there any Kenya willing to buy a set-top box with only 4 stations?
5. What is the stand of CA on this?


Does it matter if I watch the TV using LG, Samsung, Sanyo, Greatwall,
Panasonic, Sony ... because the Set-top box technology is just an extension
of the TV, and anybody with a build in DVBT2 TV set will be able to watch
this content without a set-top box anyway.

Sincerely,
______________________
Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya

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higher ground in that lifetime." - Maxwell Anderson



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