Furore erupts over licensing of mobile TV operators

20 May 2010

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).

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.

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