held public hearings as part of its investigation into competition in the pay-TV sector this week.
on the matter. Icasa found that MultiChoice, Africa’s largest pay-TV operator, held significant market power, which the authority considers a harm to competition. The emergence of over-the-top media services that offer content directly to viewers over the internet — likeIn its preliminary findings, Icasa concluded that the impact of OTTs is still muted, given the relatively limited level of internet access, the high cost of data and low average internet speeds.
MultiChoice calls Icasa’s exclusion of the effect of OTTs on pay-TV in its inquiry “inexplicable”. On this matter, the authority “made material findings based on flimsy, anecdotal and unsubstantiated information, and, in many instances, on supposition”, it adds.
An absolute waste of a regulatory body who is trying for the last 16 years to break the Multichoice monopoly! Appointment on meritocracy as opposed to Cadre deployment!
skalabrak and because you pander to the ANC, and keep playing fucking repeats.........you have not kept up with the times,
Don’t hold your breath.
It is long overdue. I am shocked it has taken.
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