By Prince Osuagwu (Hi-Tech Editor) & Emmanuel Elebeke It appears a stiff competition is going to happen in the Digital Satellite Television, DSTV space in a few months, as a new cable satellite television operator, TSTV comes to town. The only time this kind of brewing competition happened in that space was between 2007 and 2011 when Entertainment Highway, owners of the defunct High Television, HiTV, had a brief stint in the industry, giving Multichoice a run for its money. HiTV, on August 1, 2007 launched its multi-channel digital satellite television service in Nigeria using Hypercable Digital Terrestrial technology and launched Direct to Home (DTH) Satellite technology. It later broadcast its material only on satellite at the price of N3, 500 monthly. It was the first television platform in Africa to deploy Hypercable, a terrestrial pay-per-view TV decoder system. However, the satellite television operator’s services eventually crashed in November ...
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