{"id":43956,"date":"2013-08-11T08:45:08","date_gmt":"2013-08-11T06:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=43956"},"modified":"2013-08-11T08:53:08","modified_gmt":"2013-08-11T06:53:08","slug":"icasa-stifling-pay-tv-competition-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/43956\/icasa-stifling-pay-tv-competition-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Icasa stifling pay-TV competition: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Industry insiders argue that ineffective regulation from the Independent Communications authority of South Africa (ICASA) and the delay in digital terrestrial television (DTT) migration are helping MultiChoice, and hence DStv.<\/p>\n<p>According to a City Press report, MultiChoice is trying to make it look like there is competition to avoid stronger regulation in the sector.<\/p>\n<p>The concerns, the newspaper reported, stem from MultiChoice\u2019s plans:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bail out its troubled competitor, TopTV;<\/li>\n<li>A deal to pay the SABC R553 million over five years for two new channels on DStv;<\/li>\n<li>MultiChoice\u2019s alleged lobbying of the National Association of Manufacturers in Electronics Components (Namec) to contest the need for conditional access control in the DTT settop boxes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>MultiChoice denied the allegation that it is trying to stifle competition, arguing that there are plans to license new satellite broadcasters.<\/p>\n<p>MultiChoice also highlighted that they face competition from new Internet based services.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Multichoice<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"MultiChoice unveils DStv PVR \u201con steroids\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/43393\/multichoice-unveils-dstv-pvr-on-steroids\/\">MultiChoice unveils DStv PVR \u201con steroids\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Naspers hikes Internet revenue by 70%\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/27359\/naspers-hikes-internet-revenue-by-70\/\"><strong>Naspers hikes Internet revenue by 70%<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><strong><a title=\"Naspers boosted by Internet segment\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/16560\/naspers-boosts-revenue-on-internet-segment\/\">Naspers boosted by Internet segment<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DStv\u2019s Internet threat\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/27476\/dstvs-internet-threat\/\"><strong>DStv\u2019s Internet threat<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/64610-south-african-tv-viewer-stats-released.html\"><strong>South African TV viewer stats released<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Icasa is not acting effectively as a competition regulator in the pay-TV market, argue industry insiders<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":32937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5554],"tags":[25,78,36,1253],"class_list":["post-43956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-active","tag-dstv","tag-icasa","tag-multichoice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43958,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43956\/revisions\/43958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}