Sub-Saharan Africa is forecast to add more than 16 million pay-TV subscribers between 2018 and 2024 to bring its total to 45.63 million, according to the Sub-Saharan Africa Pay TV Forecasts report.
StarTimes, SMiT introduce CI Plus 1.3 CAM to Africa
StarTimes and SMiT are to jointly launch CI Plus 1.3 CAM with an operator profile function on the African market.
African pay TV revenue to reach $6 billion in 2021
According to the latest data by Dataxis for the year ending 2016, the number of pay-TV subscribers in Africa stood at approximately 18.7 million.
StarTimes employs Eutelsat for DTT in Africa
StarTimes, an operator of digital TV networks in Africa, and Eutelsat Communications have concluded new multi-year agreements to accelerate roll-out of DTT across Africa.
Conax/StarTimes extend African cooperation
Conax has entered into a contract with StarTimes to co-develop a media gateway solution for its Africa operations.
SES Platform Services takes StarTimes to Africa
African digital TV operator StarTimes has chosen SES Platform Services, the technical services subsidiary of Astra satellite operator SES, to distribute TV channels for its DTH subscribers across Sub-Saharan Africa.
StarTimes adds capacity on SES-5 for Africa
SES has announced that StarTimes, China’s leading systems integrator, technology provider and network operator, has extended its partnership with SES on the SES-5 satellite.
IROKOtv secures StarTimes channels
MIPTV 2015 – CANNES. IROKOtv and StarTimes have signed an exclusive for two brand new linear TV channels, IROKO Play and IROKO Plus, on the African pay TV platform.
Conax and ALi enable StarTimes expansion
StarTimes is to further expand its service into new African markets. The operator has adopted the full range of Conax certified set-top box based on ALi chipset solutions.