Cape Verde Property Portal - 09/10/06 - Cape Verde: One for the Money, Two for the Show

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09/10/06 - Cape Verde: One for the Money, Two for the Show

Cabo Verde Telecom has set up a new subsidiary CVMultimédia that will be offering 21 television channels, Internet and voice: in other words, a full "triple-play" offer. The move is seen as pre-emptive as a second licence was granted through international tender to Chinese-owned Cabo Verde Digital which will offer 30 channels using DVB-T.

Cabo Verde Digital is a subsidiary of Xiamen Sinonets Electronics, a Chinese company with experience of satellite television in China (see www.chinafujian.com). This licence does not give the operator the right to offer telecoms services.

CVMultimédia's service will be branded Zap TV and cost CV escudos 2,100 (USD24) per month. This includes the equipment to receive the signal that costs CV escudos 28,000 (USD320) amortised over the period of a 24-month contract. For this the user will get 20 foreign channels and state broadcaster Televisao de Cabo Verde (TCV).

The 20 foreign channels will include: SIC Notícias, TV Record, Rai Uno, BBC World, TV5, TV Galicia, Infinito, Fox Life, Fashion TV, Euronews, Eurosport, Extreme Sport, TVE Internacional, CNBC, MCM, RTP-África, Lusomundo Premium, Lusomundo Gallery and Playboy SportTv, SIC, RTP1 and 2 and TVI.

The two operators will be fighting over a market where the overall population is just over 460,000 people. For Cabo Verde Telecom the full extent of its market is probably circumscribed by the 70,000 fixed lines through which it can deliver DSL services.

Early reports back on IP-TV delivered to African subscribers indicated that there are initial teething problems over stability of picture delivery. Also subscribers will probably take some time to get used to the slow response time on channel changing. Operators may also need to tip off users that it's not a wise idea to run the TV service and allow another member of the family to use the phone service.

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