Tuesday 10 October 2017

TSTV AFRICA WILL START COMMERCIAL OPERATION ON NOVEMBER 1, SAYS CEO, BRIGHT ECHEFU

Bright Echefu
The Managing Director of TSTV, Bright Echefu, has made it known that his Pay TV will commence commercial operation on the 1st of November, 2017. He stated this while briefing journalists on some days ago in Abuja.

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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