SABC takes fight with Sentech to tribunal

headed to the Competition Tribunal over its allegations that broadcasting signal distributor Sentech is charging it excessive prices and engaging in anticompetitive behaviour.

Addressing Sentech’s unfair, unregulated tariffs was one of several SABC priorities directed at legacy regulations Last year, it emerged in parliament that the SABC owed Sentech more than R700-million, and deputy communications minister Philly Mapulane told MPs at the time that the SABC was not only technically insolvent butIn its earlier complaint to the Competition Commission, the SABC strongly criticised Sentech’s tariffs and behaviour, describing the fees as “not appropriate or correct”.

For TV terrestrial transmission in the same period, prices increased by 3.37% and 4.85%/year. The commission concluded that these prices were low and in line with inflation.But the public broadcaster is having none of it. “The SABC has noted that the Competition Commission has ruled that Sentech’s tariffs are not excessive.

“Without explanation, Icasa simply abandoned a statutorily required process, leaving the SABC and others at the mercy of monopoly pricing in the terrestrial signal distribution market. In 2021, Icasa started a fresh inquiry on the signal distribution market, effectively discontinuing the 2010 process. That 2021 inquiry has still not been completed,” he said.

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