{UAH} Uganda approves five firms to deal in free-to-air decoders

Uganda is in real trouble.

In as much as one wants a free media, using procured technology boarders on a total sale out. Sweden for example migrated from analogy to digital I remember 2005, the state had made efforts to extend the optic fibre network to every home and house. Rural areas benefited from terrestrial technology. By 1995 the internet was only in a few homes. By 2005 one could download a 3 hr film just in few minutes on an ADSL copper network cum telephone network.  Britain which is not as wired invented a small aperture dish antenna and it is equally effective.

Now that wi-fi technology is evolving very first, UCC could not envisage that a digital box is an equally out moded archaic technology at best were a flat TV is soon aligning with an I pad technology. Just think about it!

Aaah, yes we sold off UTL we could not run and to help some few individuals get rich quickly. Now we have to import just a digital box the state would have ordered Makerere to design, patent and then manufacture to sale at 5% more than production cost.

Now we can sing hallelujah UCC has made it by procuring – the fate and world of an African is terribly confined. Import a digital box – good heavens!

Bwanika.

On Thursday, February 13, 2014 6:13:21 PM UTC+1, lakitgum wrote:

Uganda approves five firms to deal in free-to-air decoders

Thursday 13 February 2014 | 16:58 CET | News

The Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) has approved five firms to deal in the import and sale of free-to-air TV decoders, opening up a market that has been dominated by pay-TV providers. The companies allowed to deal in the DVB-T2 devices are Widestar Digital, Icomsys Africa, Brivid Uganda, Syscorp and Trans-African Container Transport, the Daily Monitor reported citing a source familiar with the deal at the industry regulator.  The source said the free-to-air decoders will start arriving in the country either in February or early March. Uganda's decision to open up the market for dealers in the devices stems from unwillingness by the pay-TV providers, including Multichoice, StarTimes and Zuku, to sell free-to-air decoders. Uganda switched to digital broadcasting in August 2013, starting with the central region, with Uganda Broadcasting Corporation as signal distributor running both analog and digital platforms simultaneously. This was meant to allow more consumers to acquire decoders ahead of the overall digital switch slated for December. 

Categories:	Broadcast & Satellite
Companies:	MultiChoice / StarTimes / UCC
Countries:	Uganda

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