Sentech interim CEO Tebogo Leshope said the SABC’s unwillingness or inability to pay its signal distribution fees is of “great concern”.
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The SABC owes Sentech more than R700-million – or about half of the broadcasting signal distributor’s annual revenue.
Sentech, South Africa’s state-owned signal distribution operator, is in search of a new CEO.
MTN South Africa will soon cough up the money still owing to the communications regulator from last year’s spectrum auction.
South Africa’s telecommunications operators expand on their plans for frequencies in the digital dividend bands.
Sentech will at midnight on Monday move TV broadcasters out of the “digital dividend” frequency bands.
Cape Town TV has warned of serious implications if communications minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni pushes ahead with analogue switch-off on 31 March.
The SABC is Sentech’s biggest client. But that’s not stopping the state-owned signal distributor from formulating plans to compete with it.
E.tv parent eMedia Investments on Friday launched a blistering attack on Icasa and Sentech, over the state-owned broadcasting signal distributor’s monopoly.
Attempts to monitor and control the entire market actively stifle competition, reduce quality, raise prices and hamstring technological progress.