Bright Echefu |
According
to him, TSTV would launch its
services with about 1 million decoders nationwide. He made is clear that at
least 5,000 decoders TSTV would be released to the public next week for free, and
that it would use the first set of decoders with one month free subscription to
test run its services.
In
his own words: “Commercialization
of our decoders will resume officially on November 1 and by that time, every
part of Nigeria would have TSTV decoders for people to buy. We are releasing
about one million which can go round and our target for the first quarter is
one million units. In every quarter, we will bring one million units and we are
targeting four million units within the next one year. I can tell you
categorically that some decoders will be released next week for Nigerians to
test and we are going to cover the 36 states of the federation. These decoders
are going to be free and it is close to 5,000 units to test and that will last
for two weeks.”
The
TSTV boss explained that the delay in releasing the decoders to the public was
to ensure that dealers were properly scrutinized so that the decoders do not
fall into the wrong hands, adding that the decoder would be sold to Nigerians
at a subsidized rate. According to him, the landing cost of the decoder is
N28,000.
He
added: “We
don’t want a situation where someone would pick our decoders and dump them
somewhere. That is why we are very careful because of competition. We have
received well over 6,000 applications and it has been overwhelming processing
these people; but so far, we have been able to accredit more than 748 dealers
and we have received applications from more than 3,000 of them. That is why we
have not commercialized our services even though we are the ones losing because
we have enough decoders to cover the whole of Nigeria. But it will be unfair
with all the money put in for us to give decoders out and those decoders don’t
get to the end users.”
Echefu
said that measures had been put in place to ensure its sustainability in terms
of services, pledging that the organisation would be envied by many Nigerians
in the next 10 years.
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