Mobile TV application awarded to e.tv

By the deadline of 7 May 2010, ICASA had received the following applications:

• Mobile TV Consortium
• Super 5 Media Pty Ltd
• Multichoice Africa
• e.tv

Having reviewed the applications in line with the regulations, which stated that only entities with broadcasting service licences were eligible to apply for the available spectrum capacity to provide Mobile TV services, it arrived at the following conclusions:

• Mobile TV Consortium is disqualified on the basis that they do not hold any broadcasting service licence
• Super 5 Media Pty Ltd is disqualified as they failed to submit the required number of copies that are permanently bound
• Multichoice Africa is disqualified for late submission of the application.
• e.tv's application is accepted, as it complied with the preliminary requirements

The Authority will continue with the next step as prescribed in the Invitation to apply (ITA) and will also make a determination on the licensing of the remaining capacity in the first Mobile TV multiplex.