Warm Greetings Jane, Thank you for the enlightenment. It begs why some of the industry leaders would not be at the forefront driving this agenda (unless it means it doesn't serve their shareholders interests) and my take is that this matter is what flips the industry in this generation.There has got to be a very good explanation to this, the dots do not seem to join. I view this as hospitals insisting their Doctors will only use scapel and "knife" for surgeries while newer non-invasive preventive care means or technologically driven gadgets are available. Jane, as Kivuva has requested could you enlighten us on how this whole thing works or should work. Other countries. Tafadhali as it seems the matter is too emotive for sombre non-biased input from players in the sector. Ahsante! Have a blessed day and weekend ahead! Regards/Wangari --- Pray God Bless. 2013Wangari circa - "Being of the Light, We are Restored Through Faith in Mind, Body and Spirit; We Manifest The Kingdom of God on Earth". -------------------------------------------- On Fri, 23/1/15, Mwendwa Kivuva via isoc <isoc@lists.my.co.ke> wrote: Subject: Re: [isoc_ke] Fw: [kictanet] The battle for control of Kenyan Digital airspace To: "Network of non- formal Educational institutions" <nnfeischools@yahoo.com> Cc: "ISOC Kenya Chapter" <isoc@lists.my.co.ke>, "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Date: Friday, 23 January, 2015, 13:23 On 23 January 2015 at 12:02, Network of non- formal Educational institutions <nnfeischools@yahoo.com> wrote: We have also been paying Signet and Startimes monthly fees for carrying us and relaying our content to available free to air set boxes. Jane, thank you for this. I need to understand something, do a digital content provider like ElimuTV need to pay all digital signal providers for them to be accessible by all set-top boxes? My understanding is if I buy any box (say Samsutech set-top box), I will be able to watch all non-subscription based TV stations. As per your email, it seems a content provider has to pay all licensed digital carriers. This is is a very expensive way of distributing content. Let me understand, if you only paid Signet to carry your content, I would not be able to access it via Startimes set-top box? There is something fundamentally wrong with how we have structured policy around the digital migration and we need to clearly define a set of principles that must be adhered to by all players. Regards ______________________ Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya "There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime." - Maxwell Anderson -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ isoc mailing list isoc@lists.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/isoc