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You may not know what is Free to Air or simply FTA. Free-to-air (FTA) is a term used to describe television (TV) and radio broadcasts which are broadcast unencrypted and may therefore be picked up via any suitable receiver. You actually need a dish, a Receiver, a positioner (optional), Lnb which will enable you to receive Digital Satellite TVs with CD Quality sound anywhere you are in Nigeria.

Stations like CNN, DWTV, SMILE OF A CHILD, CHRISTIAN CHANNELS, ARABIC CHANNELS and many more will be yours to view including AIT, CHANNELS etc.

Two options are available: Stationary and Movable options. If you have a dish that faces one satellite. You have a stationary option, and you only have access to view unecrypted channels on one particular satellite but if you have a motorized dish (movable option) which moves around to different satellites, then you will be able to connect to more satellites where more unencrypted TV Channels are located.

An installer may do an installation of a motorised one for you for at least N30,000 and above while the one facing a single satellite may be less.

Its really an alternative to the DSTVs of this world.

Mine is Linux. I have differnet variants on my machine. Ubuntu & Suse 10.0. Its an alternative for Microsoft operating systems. It comes with different packages like Acrobat reader, Gimp (adobe fotoshop), open office (like ms word, powerpoint) and lots of other packages Free of Charge (FOC). You can also download, burn it on CDs without installing anything on your systems just to try it. You also have the C-compiler iin the terminal console. There is also a user magazine that is free for you to learn lots of things about linux. This can be found at http://www.tuxmagazine.com