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Firm popularizes digital TV in Africa

By Zhang Zhouxiang (China Daily) Updated: 2014-10-27 07:44

Firm popularizes digital TV in Africa

Pang Xinxing (center), CEO of Star Times, which is headquartered in Beijing, says his company provides low-cost digital TV services in several African countries. [Provided to China Daily]

When Star Times was founded in 1988 in Beijing, digital TV was barely known to most Chinese. Since then the company has been highly successful in popularizing the basic and value-added services of digital TV and managing broadcast networks. These days it offers a broad range of services, including technology support, hardware and content.

In 2005 the company's CEO, Pang Xinxing, arrived in Africa on a mission to seek investment opportunities. What he saw in this vast continent reminded him of China in the 1980s: The digital TV industry was dominated by European and US companies, it cost more than $100 to install and $100 a month to receive programs, making it affordable to only a few.

In all of this Pang saw an opportunity to expand Star Times to Africa, whose consumers were ripe for the picking, and where competition was less fierce than elsewhere.

After two years of preparations the only Chinese non-State-owned company capable of doing overseas broadcasting and TV contract work established operations in Rwanda in 2007, and more were set up in other countries.

Unlike Star Times' Western counterparts, the services it offered were cheap, the lowest price being just $6 for a monthly subscription. Liao Lanfang, vice-president and financial director of the Tanzanian branch, remembers how astonished local users were at their service when he first arrived.

"We really wanted to make it affordable to more people. But while our services were very cheap, there was nothing inferior about the quality."

Now Star TV has more than 800,000 subscribers in Tanzania. Its dominance is clear when you consider that there are about 5 million families in the country, of which 1.2 million use digital TV.

The company says that across the continent it has 4 million subscribers, making it one of the top non-State-owned enterprises in the field. It has registered companies in 23 African countries and has set up businesses in 12 of them.

"Our services cover Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Uganda, and there are plans for more," Liao says.

In its overseas expansion, Star Times puts great store in the youth and training of its staff. Of the 800 Chinese staff, the average age is 30, and nearly a third have a gree or a PhD.

"Of our more than 330 staff in Tanzania, only about two dozen are Chinese, mainly filling administrative and tech support posts," Liao says. "The rest are locals. In some southern cities, we have only locals running the stations."

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