Phew! At long last, Kwese TV is finally coming into Zimbabwe. This is made possible by Dr Dish (Private) Limited.
In a media release forwarded to Innovation Village, talks with Econet Media Limited, a Mauritian based Pan African Television network had been going on for some time until a deal was finally concluded in October 2016.
According to the Executive Chairman of Dr Dish, Mr Nyasha Muzavazi, “We were so excited about this development that we immediately notified the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe, in terms of Section 17 of the Broadcasting Services Act Chapter 12:06 as part of the administrative and regulatory requirements. We notified our regulator that we were partnering with Kwese, and gave them the full details of the channels we were going to bring to the nation, together with a whole host of other technical information”
Dr Dish originally intended to bring the Kwese service to Zimbabwe in January of 2017, but had to wait for Zimbabwe to get its slot in the ongoing pan- African rollout which Kwese is currently involved with.
This is about time considering the fact that Kwese is already available in over 23 countries in Africa excluding Zimbabwe and Econet has a strong base in Zimbabwe.
In terms of readiness and investment in preparing to launch Mr Muzavazi, explained “The parties have been working tirelessly since then and making all necessary preparations for the launch of Kwese in Zimbabwe. A lot of work has gone into building a powerful distribution infrastructure, recruitment, training and development of Kwese’s installation teams, the high-tech Kwese Technites, customer service training, advertising and other work”
Announcing the choice of Econet Media as a partner, Mr Muzavazi said “We are very excited about our partnership because Econet Media is a next generation African media player whose multiplatform offering includes direct to home satellite services (DTH), a mobile app – Kwese App which includes the popular sports all Kwese Free Sports (KFS) App, broadband television service Kwese Play, digital sports service KweseESPN amongst others. With a presence in 23 countries and over 75m eye balls across Africa we could not miss the opportunity to bring Kwese TV to Zimbabwe. The final piece in ensuring we achieve this was to make sure that our license fees were all up to date, and that was done this week. We are now ready to launch Kwese. The wait is now over!”
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Welcome to Zimbabwe.. KWESE TV. Thanks admin for the update.
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