StarTimes Nigeria crosses the 1 million subscriber mark; upgrades to DVB-T2 technology

Digital Terrestrial Technology (DTT) service in Africa,StarTimes has crossed the One million subscriber mark in Nigeria. This was disclosed by Bayo Adeniyi, the Senior Adviser, StarTimes Digital Satellite/NTA last week.

In preparation for the digital broadcasting switch over in June 2015 and desire to provide quality digital service to customers, Digital Terrestrial Technology (DTT) service provider in Africa, StarTimes  has launched DVB-T2 technology, the latest modern broadcasting equipment, in the continent.

One of the major advantages of the DVB-T2 is its ability to offer more education, news and entertainment because it contains more channels as one frequency on DVB-T2 has the capacity for 25 channels.

Nigeria has therefore joined other countries such as Kenya, Uganda, Mozambique, and Tanzania where the StarTimes introduced the technology.

Speaking at the unveiling of the technology, Bayo Adebayo, senior adviser to StarTimes said StarTimes mission of ensuring every home in Nigeria enjoys affordable digital entertainment is backed by its collaboration with NTA, a strategic partnership that will help Nigeria in actualizing its 2015 digital transition deadline. “StarTimes will leverage on the existing platform on NTA to provide quality digital service to every home in Nigeria” he said.

He  said that having StarTimes DVB-T2 decoder with up to 75 channels of great sport, music, movies, news and lots more is a vision coming to reality, as Nigerians can now confidently migrate into digital space with StarTimes as it provides them with the latest technology in DTT operation that can give up to 75 channels and quality digital entertainment.

For customers who have the old technology, Adebayo said customers who recharge for two months can have access to the new technology.

The management of the broadcast station said it has requested for more frequencies in order to have more channels for content distribution. This will, expectedly keep content developers busy as stations will require quality content to fill the channels.

Adebayo said StarTimes as a brand understands the needs of its teeming subscribers and continually strives to meet those needs as new channels like EuroSports News, Africa Movie Channel, Oduduwa TV, V channel and Away Life are ready to join subscribers viewing list.