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GLOBAL FLASH NEWS Ghana has become the first African country to have SMART TV, a new digital terrestrial television service. The service was launched by Next Generation Broadcasting (NGB) in collaboration with Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) and would witness a commercial roll-out in the coming weeks. According to Ahmed Wahab, Head of Marketing and Sale, Smart TV offers a smart mix of exciting local and international content for the entire family. It offers both pay-TV service and free-to-air service of existing local stations on the Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) network. SMART TV will initially air in Accra and Kumasi and would later be extended to other regions in Ghana in the near future. Technological development has brought about new and more efficient ways of recording, storing and processing electrical signals, enabling digital, rather than
The deal with state-owned Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) includes the satellite, control facilities and launching service, Hoang Minh Thong, a government satellite expert, said at a press conference. In April 2008, Vietnam launched a rocket from South America to propel its first orbiter into space. So far, more than 80 percent of the capacity of Vinasat-1 has been used, officials said. The satellite transmits telecommunications and television signals. Vietnam expects to fully recover its investment in the first satellite by 2018, a year earlier than scheduled, said Lam Cuoc Cuong, director of the Vinasat Centre which markets the satellite service. Vinasat-2 is expected to operate for 15 years and will help transmit television, radio and civil aviation signals to remote regions of the country. It will also be used as a backup satellite for the first one, officials said.
ETHIOPIA: ETHIOPIAN SATELLITE TELEVISION ON AIR VIA ARABSAT
VIETNAM'S SECOND SATELLITE US defence giant Lockheed Martin signed a 215 million dollar contract to build Vietnam's second satellite, officials said.
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ESAT, the new Ethiopian satellite television has successfully launched its trial broadcast to Ethiopia and other countries, the managing editor said. According to ESAT's source, hundreds of calls and email messages are coming from all corners of the country as feed backs on the success of the transmission. “It is a very amazing experience,” says the managing editor, “We haven't even released the channel frequency. It looks that people couldn't wait for tuning on their satellite channel ever since the news was spread on the media.” he added. ESAT is now on air for 24 hrs on Arabsat /Badr 6/ Ku band channel: Frequency is 11.785 GHz; symbol rate is 27.500 MSym/s; polarization is Vertical. ESAT is proud to offer its viewers in Ethiopia on Satellite channel of getting the best of Ethiopian news, views and entertainment programes.
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