New Zealand Rejects Sky-Vodafone Merger Plan

New Zealand’s competition watchdog rejected a multi-billion dollar merger between Vodafone NZ and pay-TV operator Sky on Thursday, saying the combined entity would have too much market power. Sky Network Television and Vodafone unveiled the planned tie-up between New Zealand’s largest subscription television service and its second biggest telecoms provider last June, estimating it was … Read more

The TV Analogue To Digital Circus In Ghana; Will Joe Anokye’s Anchor Hold?

The story begins when the 150-year-old telecoms organization, called the International Telecoms Union (ITU), decides that globally; all television transmission must be conducted in digital as opposed to analogue broadcasting which had been the traditional method of transmission. The difference is similar to the analogue mobile phones, where phone calls to a handset, did not … Read more