Africa (Sub-Saharan) Digital TV News

Multi Carrier Mauritius selects Net Insight platform for Digital Terrestrial TV
Sep 4, 2007 – Net Insight has received an order from MCML for the supply of multi-service provisioning platform (MSPP) equipment for building the national Digital Terrestrial TV network (DTT) in Mauritius.
News categories: Digital TV, Mauritius, Terrestrial, TV Services

Multichoice Africa Takes New Capacity on Eutelsat SESAT 1 Satellite to Expand DSTV Pay-TV Platform
Aug 30, 2007 – MultiChoice Africa has boosted its capacity leases with Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) to support further expansion of its pay television and Internet services in sub-Saharan Africa.
News categories: MultiChoice Africa, Eutelsat, Africa, Satellite

DSTV Mobile Debuts in Nigeria
Aug 29, 2007 – Nigeria attained another technological height yesterday, with the launch of Digital Video Broadcasting-Handheld (DVB-H) by Details Nigeria Ltd.
News categories: Digital TV, Mobile, Nigeria

Botswana - GTV Pay TV Hits the Market
Aug 28, 2007 – New kid on the block, GTV held their consumer launch at the Fashion Lounge in Phakalane, bringing competition and lower prices to the pay television market.
News categories: Botswana, Digital TV, Satellite

OpenTV's High Definition PVR and PUSH VOD solutions selected by Multichoice South Africa
Aug 14, 2007 – OpenTV Corp. (NASDAQ GM: OPTV) has announced that MultiChoice South Africa (MCSA), the pioneer of multi-channel television in Africa and a Naspers group subsidiary, selected OpenTV as a key partner for the rollout of advanced digital television services on their DStv platform.
News categories: Digital TV, Middleware, Satellite, South Africa

Pace Micro Technology plc results for the full year ended 2 June 2007
Jul 24, 2007 – Pace Micro Technology (LSE: PIC) has announced its audited financial results for the full year ended 2 June 2007. Volume shipments increased by 77% to 3.9m set-top boxes (2006: 2.2m)
News categories: Pace Micro Technology, Africa, Asia, Cable TV, Digital TV, Europe, Middle-East, North America, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box, UK

T-DMB technology arrives in Ghana
Jul 20, 2007 – The first ever mobile television to operate on Terrestrial Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (T-DMB) on the African continent has been launched by Black Star TV in Accra, Ghana.
News categories: Africa, Digital TV, Ghana, Mobile

New Sub-Saharan pay television to broadcast in 18 African countries
Jun 23, 2007 – A new Pay TV company has begun beaming its programmes in the five East African countries before rolling out to 13 other African countries in an ambitious project. More …
News categories: Africa, Digital TV, Kenya, Malawi, Satellite, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Strong growth forecast for MENA pay TV
Jun 19, 2007 – The pay TV market in the Middle East and North Africa will grow by 36% over the next five years. Informa Telecoms & Media's report shows that the region's 4.5 million pay TV subscribers at end-2006 will grow to 6.1 million in 2012.
News categories: Africa, Algeria, Angola, Bahrain, Cable TV, Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lebanon, Market Research, Middle-East, Morocco, Nigeria, Oman, Qatar, Satellite, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, UAE, Zimbabwe