StarTimes
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Native name
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四达时代 |
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| Private | |
| Industry | Information and communications technology |
| Founded | 1988 |
| Founder | Pang Xinxing |
| Headquarters | Beijing, China |
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Number of employees
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5,000 |
| Website | startimestv |
StarTimes is a Chinese multinational media company with strong presence in Africa.
StarTimes offers digital terrestrial television and satellite television services to consumers. StarTimes also provides digital television technologies to countries and television broadcasting industries which are switching from analog to digital television. StarTimes is a leading digital TV-operator across Sub-Saharan Africa. StarTimes' arrival on African market disrupted traditional model of TV industry by making Pay TV affordable to every family and not only to the upper class. As of May 2017, StarTimes operates in 30 countries and serves 10 million subscribers.
StarTimes Group was founded in 1988 by Chinese engineer Pang Xinxing.
In 2002, StarTimes began to expand its business to Africa, and has since been working closely with African governments to jointly promote digitization.
In 2007, StarTimes received the first digital TV operator license issued by Rwanda. Since, StarTimes has established subsidiaries in 30 African countries including Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Mozambique, Madagascar, and the Republic of Central Africa.
In 2009, StarTimes and the Tanzania Public Service Broadcaster formed a joint venture to roll out Digital Migration. On June 17, 2015, Tanzania's government gave StarTimes a certificate of appreciation “For invaluable contribution to the success of migration from analogue to digital television broadcasting”.
In February 2016, StarTimes was awarded a DTH License in Ivory Coast. Operation began in October 2016.
On November 23, 2016, StarTimes was one of the three companies selected by Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) to establish and operate DTH distribution services in Pakistan for a term of 15 years.
On September 2, 2017, government of Chad and StarTimes signed an agreement on digital migration. After a lengthy process, StarTimes was chosen to build a Digital Terrestrial Television network, which will include digitization of national infrastructures, from television broadcast to terminal reception.
In 2011, StarTimes hosted the First African Digital TV Development Seminar. The seminar, which has been held for seven consecutive years, is an important platform for African countries to discuss how to realize the digital migration in Africa.
At the forum held in May 2017, over 400 delegates from 46 African and Asian countries were present at the seminar, including more than 30 ministers of information and communication from African countries, like Nigeria, Central Africa Republic, Chad, Guinea, Liberia, Malawi, Zambia, DRC Congo and Ethiopia.
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