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By Obiora Egwuatu

TSTV MAY BE A FRAUD.
I promoted Tstv and was hoping that it could challenge DStv. It was launched in Abuja few days ago.
Read this:

Is TSTV A Fraud?

Another MMM Scam. Everybody beware.

These TSTV guys are actually reckless. I am really surprised that they brought the minister into this.
I believe that this is another MMM. Buyers beware. This is based on the following:
1. Bein sports acquired the EPL, Champions League and Laliga only for MENA (Middle East and North Africa). They do not have the right for Nigeria. DSTV owns the rights for Nigeria till 2019. You cannot give what you do not have. When a new service is launched, you have to wait for the next bidding round to have a shot at acquiring the rights. You cannot jump in the middle and start showing it. Things are not done that way in the PayTV world.

2.
A lot of channels listed like CNN, National Geographic, Discovery etc were acquired by DSTV on an exclusive basis for DTH in sub-saharan Africa by DSTV. Channels like Star Movies, MBC2, etc are only cleared for middle east and Asia. I really doubt that they have the rights to those channels. They may show it for one or two months before they are asked to take them off air.

3.
I check with a content aggregator on the cost per subscriber for these channels, assuming they can buy the rights, it came out the about 23 USD per month. That is excluding the sports channels. Based on today's naira exchange rate of 365 naira to a dollar, the cost is 8,395 Naira per subscriber. The content owners globally charge per month for their content. They do not charge per week or part of the month. The content owners dictate the terms. Nobody can pay 8395 Naira and charge 3000 Naira. Not possible.

4.
The cost of decoder package is as follows - decoder 25 USD, smartcard 4 USD, dish is 5 USD. Total is 34 USD (12410 naira). If we add shipping and clearing, you can get 15,000 Naira. To charge 5000 Naira for the package, you will need a lot of cheap money from bank to fund the decoder purchase. Buying 15,000 and selling 5000 sounds interesting to me.

5.
To do internet via satellite, you need VSAT equipment which is expensive compared to the dish/lnb you need to receive dstv. Minimum cost of vsat equipment should be not less than 50,000 Naira. If you use the traditional dish equipment, you can only receive. You cannot do internet with it. Unless TSTV will supply you 40,000 Naira vsat equipment for 5000 Naira.

6.
I went to lyngsat and checked the ABS 3A satellite, I did not see any information about any TSTV channels. Lyngsat is the database of all channels currently on satellite.

7.
When you launch a new DTH platform, you start with a test transmission. This allows you to work through some issues that might come up. It also gives people chance to see some of your channels to make sure they are real before committing their money. There is no test transmission from TSTV.


In conclusion, people should ask enough questions before investing their hard earned money. If it is too good to be true, it's probably is. Let this not be another MMM". Pls look before you leap.

Cc: lalasticlala

DStv VS TStv

The Untold and Unknown Truth and Reality about Pay-As-You-Watch TV

The budget-conscious segment of the pay-television market in Nigeria has been strident in its push for a pay-as-you-watch (PAYW) model. This push is encouraged by the use of the pay-as-you-go (PAYG) model in the telecommunications sector, which also adopted the per-second billing system after an initial reluctance.

Pay-As-You-Watch, most pay-TV subscribers are convinced, will free them from monthly contracts and introduce greater flexibility in how they watch television. More than that, many are convinced that the model is already in operation in South Africa and want its adoption in Nigeria.

There is no such thing as pay-as-you-watch TV in South Africa. What exists is the monthly contract model like we have in Nigeria and other countries of the world.

Pay-as-you-watch is often confused with pay-per-view (PPV). Are they the same? No. The PPV model allows a subscriber to watch some special events, usually of the high-ticket variety in sports and entertainment, by paying for such events in addition to having an active subscription.

This means that if pay-per-view was available in Nigeria, a subscriber would need to pay his/her monthly subscription to a pay-TV provider and then pay an additional sum-usually very expensive-to watch a high-ticket event like the Floyd Mayweather vs Manny Pacquaio fight for which boxing fans in the US paid $100 on top of their regular subscription. That is $100 for a two-hour fight.
In Nigeria, those who watched the fight on DStv’s SuperSport channel did so at no extra cost. Pay-per-view also does not exist in South Africa.

A question often asked is: Why can we not have a pay-as-you-go model for pay-TV as we have in telecommunications, where subscribers pay for what they use?

The answer is that both industries operate differently, very differently. How? Telecoms service providers do not buy content like pay-TV providers do because they are not in the business of providing entertainment content. What they buy is spectrum, for which they make a one-off payment.

Entertainment content is not bought on one-off basis. Pay-TV providers continually pay for content, with an upward review in cost when contracts for such expire. Going by this, the pay-as-you-go model in telecommunications does not fit the pay-TV industry. Pay-TV companies are, by and large, agents or vendors. They do not always own the content they broadcast. Content owners do not sell to vendors on pay-as-you-watch basis, an arrangement that does not accommodate the vending of such content on a pay-as-you-watch basis.

Pay-as-you-watch model, if ever adopted, will hinder rather than help the subscriber because of its prohibitive cost. It costs about N2,000 to watch a movie at a cinema, one movie.

If a pay-TV provider charges the same sum for a movie, subscribers are cooked! Now, if you find the movie you have gone to watch at the cinema unexciting after 40 minutes, do you get a refund? Ofcourse not. It is the same with a football match you have paid to watch at a stadium.
Pay-TV companies are also unable to go back to those who sell them content to demand a refund with a complaint that subscribers find their content tedious. Content contracts leave no room for such.
Subscribers often hinge their demand for a pay-as-you-watch model on the fact they are billed while not watching, probably when at work or out of town. The truth is that it cannot be otherwise.

The technology used in pay-TV broadcast transmits signals in just one direction: to the decoder. It is called downlink. It does not send back to the pay-TV provider. That way, the provider has no way of knowing whether or not a subscriber is watching or what he/she is watching. The only thing a provider can do is to block the smart card from accessing signal when subscription has expired.

Pay-as-you-watch is assumed to be a pocket-friendly usage billing model, but it is not. A semblance of that exists in the United Kingdom, where TV and broadband packages are tied together.
For example, BSkyB’s Now TV offers access to Sky’s seven sports channels as well as some entertainment and movie channels on smartphones, games consoles, tablets and similar devices. A subscriber need not have an active Sky subscription to enjoy the service because it is exclusively internet-based.

Payment, which is daily or weekly, depends on the package. For the entertainment package, the sum is £6.99 (N2,380) daily. The movie package costs £9.99 (N3,400) daily. The sports package costs £6.99 (N2,380) daily and £10.99 (N3,740) weekly. The model does not allow a subscriber to pay for only channel on any of the packages, as the content is sold in bundles. Now, add the cost to that of the data you need to view your favorite content and work out the cost. And in a country where internet connection can be relied upon to be unreliable, pay-as-you-watch is not as appealing as you assume.

Remember, you cannot demand a refund from the subscriber in the event of patchy internet service and you can consume the allocated data in the middle of a programme. For example, you can use up your data in less than 30minutes into a regular 90minutes football match.

The Choice is yours but choose wisely!!!

I hope our leaders tap into this and many more solid minerals. Mr Fayemi is not doing anything. For 2 yrs now, we haven't been able to produce or excavate any solid mineral for exportation. That man sld be sacked.

The guy no even laugh rara... Yahoo Yahoo something.

How Realistic is this Dream!!!!

The Dream.....The Country.......The Nation

COUNTRY: Oduduwa Republic

CAPITAL : Lagos
Population: Approx. 40million

CURRENCY: Awo

GDP: Approx. US$187Billions (Purchasing power parity)

LANGUAGES: Yoruba & English

GOVERNMENT: Unitary System

DEMONYM: Yorubian

AREA: 275 square kilometers

POINTS OF INTEREST: Olumo Rock, Cocoa House, Third Mainland Bridge,Murtala International Airport,Le Meridian,National Art Thearter,Alaba International Market,Tinubu Square, Arinta Waterfalls, River Osun, Ikogosi Warm Spring,Idanre Hills,Construction of the 17bn dollar Dangote refinery already underway in Lekki Lagos( to create 300,000 jobs and will have a refining capacity of about 650,000 barrels of crude a day and the great citadels of learning:UNILAG,OAU,UI,UNIBEN,UNILORIN,UNAB with Private and State owned institutions.

MINERAL RESOURCES: Oil, Gemstone, Kaolin,
Limestone,Feldspar, Tantalite, Phosphate, Tatium, Granite, Syenite, Gold, Marble, Iron-Ore, Glass-sand, Clay, Talc, Aqua Marine Tourmaline, Cocoa, Colimbite, Kaolin, Sillimnote, Dolomite,BITUMEN in large deposit in Ondo.

STATES: Ekiti, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Oyo, EDO. Warri,Oya (carved out ,of Kwara), Ibadan (carved out of Oyo), Ijebu (carved out of Ogun), Ile-Ife (carved out of Osun), Okun (carved
out of Kogi), Lagoon (carved out of Lagos),Akoko State(carved out of Ondo state).
A nation where we all share things in common such as
language, food, culture, norms and beliefs, tradition etc.
A nation where corruption will have no place of abode, a nation where we watch one another's back The best legacy for the next generation
Dream The Dream
#Oduduwa Republic #ProudlyYorùbá #

Make a decision today. If you want to remain with the northern hegemony, you can stay, if you want to go with us can join us.
An idea whose time has come is like a fret train, anyone who tries to impede its motion will be crushed!

Oduduwa nation is a must!!!
"It is better that we move slightly apart and survive.It is much worse that we move closer and perish in the collision" - Ikemba Odumegwu Ojukwu.

08154433005
Abeokuta
Working class lady who's ready for marriage.

Funny but true.

Motion sickness occurs because your brain is doing two things at the same time. Your brain is detecting motion and at the sametime u are reading or eating, u are most likely to experience motion sickness in such a scenario. The immediate solution is stop whatever u are doing and focus on the movement of the vehicle or ur journey. That sick feeling will stop almost immediately.
Try it the next time u experience motion sickness, it works like magic.

johnydon22:
An Igbo adage says The child who dances Igede does not know that Igede is the dance of the spirit, he who dances it is in trouble, he who plays it is in trouble and even he who watches is in trouble

In this recent show of political potboiler of the Nigerian bureaucratic arena. A political music of Igede is at play here.

-The child who dances (Saraki) is in trouble
-he who plays (FG/APC) is in trouble
-he who watches (Us the citizens/masses) are in the trouble.

We watch as it unfolds and thus it goes the circle of Igede trouble is about to unfold before us (Nigeria)

**Observe Mode**

Best comment I've ever read on Nairaland... thumbs up.

[quote author=HopeAtHand post=44571103

I know how politcs is played in NDelta, even when detrimental to collective good. This my post isnt far from the truth.[/quote]100% true.

halfricanadian:
Every body wants a peaceful relationship now?
very funny na now una don clear say not everything is gra gra
Op i wish u luck

I have never been a gragra person.

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This is definitely an end time daughter.

Walesadeyemi:
Its very simple, you're her plan B or C or D........ Most women do this so that when the choice of their heart fails them, they can fall back on the other plans in order not to end up at prayer city at age 35 looking for husband.

My advice: let her go Coz if you think she'll choose you later on if you show more affection, then you'll be thinking like a looser or if you think you want to 'chop and run' you'll still end up hurting yourself Coz no breakup is ever easy.

So Bro LET HER GO now Coz the longer you wait, the tougher it becomes.

Thanks bro... Like i said, she's been calling but i've been ignoring her calls.

Richiy:
I don't play this kinda games. If I don't like you, you will be the first to know.

Cool.

kaziblake:
She already told you she have a boyfriend so why are still disturbing her...leave her alone and look for another girl or else she will keep you as a side boo

Thank you ma.

Richiy:
This is the point where you pick up the bits of your heart and run.

I know this story. If she loves you, she'd run after you with willingness to give up EVERYTHING.

But, why I no dey meet this kin guys sef

Cos u are like her.

Idydarling:
op, I woulda sympathised with you, but the fact that you mentioned what you bought her (d bag, shoe and necklace. .. u even mentioned the brand sef )
imo op, I think you're a proud individual who keeps count of whatever good he has done to anoda.

...and yes, she's using u 4 the time being, in order not to feel too emotionally lonely now that the main boo is away. gd luck!

Don't be too quick to judge me, I was just elaborating.

I met this girl about a month ago, she walked into my office with her friends, they enquired if they could work as IT student. As soon as i set my eyes on her, i immediately took their IT letters and accepted three of them all because of her. They started working for me and i took special interest in her. After a week, i asked her out and she declined, i kept pestering for like a month before she said YES to me.
So we started dating, within a week, i bought her a Zanotti bag, a shoe and a gold necklace just so she could know i was serious.
The problem now is that we have never seen eye to eye, we keep arguing and quarrelling. She told me she has a boy friend who has left for South Africa, i have noticed that she truly is into this guy, she keeps using his pictures as social media profile picture, the guy's picture is on her wall in her room. The guy is main reason we quarrel cos i can't take it, i see it as an insult because i feel she should not make me see all those picture stuff.
Now, my dilemma is this, we fight and i promise never to call her again, she calls me aftr two days and i forgive her again. its been like tjis since we started. Why can't she leave me alone? why can't she just focus on the one she loves who is far away? Do u think she loves me and if she does why will she flaunt her boy friend's picture when m around.
The way she talks makes me feel she loves me, she keeps telling me to be patient.
I have a good job and i have so many girls around me but i love her so much.
ladies, what do i do? should i just forget her and move on? we argued this evening and i'm almost certain she will be back.
Advice me pls.

austin4real:
Bros eh, the gbagaun for dis ur report no get part two ooooo, you applied too many Yoruba english, the construction of the story was poor as you failed to capture your readers attention, any waiz s'ha I didn't expect anything more from an abeokuta reporter...

[font=Lucida Sans Unicode][/font]IT'S AUSTIN4REAL again[b][/b]

Na my Padi u yab? The guy sabi pass u, trust me.

TrishaP:
You think I'll give a hoot what someone might think.

My dear this life is too short to worry about trivial issues.

You are definitely one of them. This is exactly the way they react to this kind of issues. They are act like they don't care but deep down you know u are guilty.
#runsgirl

Ifako/Ijaye Unit 023- House of Rep:
PDP - 38
APC - 176
UPP - 1
VOID - 7

SENATE
PDP - 40
APC - 175
VOID - 5

PRESIDENCY
PDP - 45
APC - 170

UNIT 24
PDP - 21
APC - 167

SAI BUHARI!!!
SAI BABA...

After reading all comments, I got to the end of the page and saw Gej's advert, I almost broke my phone. Seun pls remove all PDP adverts. THEY are taking Nigerians as fools.
FEBRUARY 14 is the date, go out and vote plssssss.

utytill:
Bad.hmmm....,go to court or go and die.

You must be mad... That's what you have to say to this? This only means the next election will be rigged.

A group of Nigerian Army officers involved in operations against Islamist insurgents tagged “Operation Zaman Lafiya” have written an open letter detailing a series of problems bedeviling their military operations. In addition, the officers called on President Goodluck Jonathan to investigate massive looting of funds meant for military operations. They also urged President Barack Obama of the United States and United Nations Secretary General Banki Moon to put pressure on Mr. Jonathan to engage in fighting a more focused war on Islamist terror.
SaharaReporters obtained the open letter titled “State of Operations In The North East As Observed By Some Concerned Officers.” The open letter began, “We the concerned officers participating in the North East Operation Zaman Lafiya do resolve to write this letter for the following reasons: a. to save our country Nigeria; b. to stop the bloodshed of innocent officers, soldiers and civilians in the North East; c. to appeal to the President of the United State[s] of America Mr. Barack Obama, United Nation Secretary General Mr. Banki Moon and other world leaders to as quickly as important intervene and urge President Goodluck Jonathan to do the needful in addressing the issue of insurgency in Nigeria especially in the North East.”

The officers who authored the letter said they were initially reluctant to air their grievances in the open in order not to boost the morale of insurgents, but added that troops fighting Boko Haram, a terrorist Islamist sect that has seized a significant swathe of territory in Nigeria’s northeast zone, have been equipped poorly. In addition, the officers accused Mr. Jonathan of condoning the looting of funds meant for the war against the insurgents. They specifically alleged that “Chief of Training and Operations, Major General J.A.H. Ewansiha” was a major looter of security funds. In addition, the letter stated that it was well known that Mr. Jonathan’s ADC had illicitly acquired stupendous wealth that has enabled him to buy up expensive homes in Nigeria and abroad.

The letter further alleged that top military officials had intimidated an officer who wrote a letter to the president to deny authorship of the document which exposed massive corruption in the anti-terror operations.

Below is the full text of the letter:

STATE OF OPERATIONS IN THE NORTH
1. We the concerned officers participating in the North East Operation Zaman Lafiya do resolve to write this letter for the following reasons:

a. To save our country Nigeria.

b. To stop the bloodshed of innocent officers, soldiers and civilians in the North East.

c. To appeal to the president of the United State of America Mr. Barrack Obama, United Nation Secretary General Mr. Banki Moon and other world leaders to as quickly as important to intervene and urge President Goodluck Jonathan to do the needful in addressing the issue of insurgency in Nigeria especially in the North East.

2. As members of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, it is our responsibility to defend our country Nigeria which we are ever ready to do so as the call arises. But firstly, the civil authority has the first responsibility to equip us effectively to enable us to carry out such task. This is common practice all over the world. As professional officers and soldiers, we did not want to go public with details of our frustrations concerning this operation because doing so will boast the moral[e] of our enemy. But the persistent neglect of our plight made us to do otherwise.

3. It is well known fact that of recent, a commanding officer from this theater of operation wrote a letter to our President intimating him of a few out of numerous problems affecting us in this operation which we believe Mr. President will address. It appears Mr. President has chosen to ignore it because none of his relations are among us. In this 21st century, how can an accused [be] a judge of his own case?

That letter clearly exposed the rot within the military authorities concerning this operation. This is because, the Army authority that was accused of poor administration in that letter, set up a kangaroo investigation that harass[ed], intimidate[d], and forced the officer to deny the authorship of the letter.

4. We authoritatively learned that, the Army authority succeeded in forcing the officer to deny the letter through the Provost Marshal (Army) who happen[ed] to be of the same tribe with the officer concern[ed]. For President Goodluck Jonathan to ignore such kind of allegation made us to believe the rumor going round that he has a hand or knowledge in the so-called Boko Haram. We are also aware of how the funds meant for these operations are being looted through the office of the Chief of Training and Operations, Major General J.A.H. Ewansiha. Despite our strong [belief] in democracy, we condemn a democratic government that condones corruption, especially in its military. The President is reported to always turn a blind eye to issues of corruption. For instance, the ADC to Mr.President is presently one of the richest officers in the army. He owns properties in choice places all over the country and even abroad. We are going to make public details of his wealth and assets at the appropriate time.

5. We are appealing to all well meaning Nigerians and leaders of International Community to please speak out with loud voice in [order] to make President Jonathan to constitute an independent high-powered committee to investigate the content of that letter written to him by the commanding officer. Should this request be ignored, the resultant consequence could only be imagined.

6. We stand bold to state that we are speaking the minds of all the officers and soldiers in Operation Zaman Lafiya.

Concerned Officers and Soldiers of Operation Zaman Lafiya

http://saharareporters.com/2015/01/30/army-officers-write-open-letter-jonathan-urge-obama-ban-ki-moon-intervene-anti-terror-war

Once u are born again u are no longer of the flesh but of the spirit. The flesh has no dominion over you cos u are led by the spirit of God. The holy spirit will help u see life differently. Demons are the cause of evil thought and deeds. The moment u are gifted with d Holy Spirit evil thoughts will disappear.

Its better to start afresh when things are going bad on a daily basis. How do u explain the level of insecurity, unemployment, dwindling oil prices (this didn't happen in OBJ's era, yet he says he's got good luck, goodluck my foot). Nigeria is malfunctioning on a daily basis, its been ages since we heard any good news. If u have a phone or computer system that is malfunctioning, the first thing u do is to do a factory reset and continue using it hoping it will get better. Buahri is not Nigerians first choice, he his just the RESET button that Nigerians are willing to press to save our country from further declining.
I bet that any person supporting GEJ will reset their phones if its malfuntioning, why not let us reset Nigeria, afterall, Nigeria is more important than any device.

biafranqueen:
On February 14, 2015 we will say no to Warloads! Say no to leaders that have not shown while they were out of office that they care for the youth. Say no to recycled military rulers.
Out of 160 million people we must have more choices then dementia laden recycled political refuse

On that day Nigerians will see what they always knew they should












Tears of a clown!

The number of likes u have for ur comment says alot about what people think of u. #dunb. Check out how many likes pro Buhari comments have got.