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    Furore erupts over licensing of mobile TV operators

    A broadcasting consortium, backed high-profile shareholders, including former Telkom chairman Shirley Lue Arnold, is up in arms over what it suspects was a serious breach in procedure by the Independent Communications Authority of SA (ICASA).
    Duncan McLeodBy Duncan McLeod
    20 May 2010

    The Mobile TV Consortium, which is controlled by businessman Richard Moloko's Moloko Investment Group, and whose shareholders include the JSE-listed African Media Entertainment, is worried that ICASA accepted an application for a licence more than half and hour after the 4pm deadline on 7 May 2010.

    Up for grabs are two potentially lucrative digital mobile TV licences. ICASA wants to issue the licences for the digital video broadcasting handheld (DVB-H) technology before the 2010 FIFA World Cup, which kicks off on 11 June.

    Continue reading the full story on www.TechCentral.co.za.

    Read more: mobile tv, mobile TV licences, Mobile TV Consortium
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    About Duncan McLeod

    Award-wining Duncan McLeod is the founder and editor of TechCentral (wwwTechCentral.co.za, @TechCentral]]), South Africa's latest technology news site offering breaking news, in-depth analysis and opinion that launched in September 2009. Before that, he was associate editor at the Financial Mail/FM. Contact Duncan on email duncan at techcentral dot co dot za and follow him on Twitter at @mcleodd.
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