StarTimes spokesman
in Nairobi Alex M waura bizarrely claimed in a text to The Weekly Vision that the channels
disappeared because of alleged 5G cellphone signal testing interference in
South Africa.
Chinese digital pay TV operator StarTimes with a significant presence in a number of African countries including Kenya is engaged in a bitter commercial dispute with an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate, Disney over breaches in content distribution and failure to remit royalties. The American giant abruptly pulled all of its FOX-supplied channels from StarTimes after negotiations to find an amicable solution failed.
StarTimes spokesman
in Nairobi Alex Mwaura bizarrely claimed in a text to The Weekly Vision that the channels
disappeared because of alleged 5G cellphone signal testing interference in
South Africa.
Chinese digital pay TV operator StarTimes with a significant presence in a number of African countries including Kenya is engaged in a bitter commercial dispute with an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate, Disney over breaches in content distribution and failure to remit royalties. The American giant abruptly pulled all of its FOX-supplied channels from StarTimes after negotiations to find an amicable solution failed.
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Angry and confused
Kenyan StarSat and StarTimes subscribers no longer receive the slew of channels they’ve paid for. The channels were
removed without any prior warnings from StrTimes. Subscribers are furious over
the blackout of the channels.
Disney says that
it decided to pull its channels from StarTimes’ satellite pay-TV service
because of “ongoing commercial issues with StarSat” that StarSat failed to
resolve.
Disney says that
the FOX, FOX Life and Nat Geographic channels remain available on MultiChoice’s
DStv satellite pay-TV service in South Africa and throughout sub-Saharan
Africa.
StarSat in a
bizarre message to subscribers however blames alleged 5G cellphone signal
testing interference for the loss of the channels.
“Please be advised
that the following channels have been offline since 1 October 2019: FOX, FOX
Life, National Geographic and Nat Geo WILD. Proliferation of 5G signal testing
stations due to 5G network expansion has created interference with signal feeds
of the above channels, resulting in adverse viewer experience,” StarSat tells
subscribers in a message."
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