STN: Another Step Forward for Broadcasting in Africa

11 March 2014

 

STN has recently brought the new DTH platform of STARTIMES to sub-Saharan Africa, using KA-band on Astra’s SES 5 satellite with the system of MPEG4 DVB- S2.

This was a significant breakthrough bringing 100 TV and multi radio channels to awaiting viewers in the region. The second phase of this project is already in preparation.

STN was specifically sought out by Startimes a Chinese based company who are already have a large presence in the DDT/DTH market in Africa. They currently provide digital Pay-Tv services for over 2.5 million subscribers in 11 African countries and were ranked by Forbes as among the Top 20 Most Innovative Chinese Enterprises.

“This is just another phase in STN’s business plan and new discussions are already underway for additional projects in Africa and other regions across the globe” Mitja Lovšin – Sales & Marketing Director. 

Startimes entrusted STN with this new high profile project with the key factors being, STN’s proven experience and reputation for high quality reliable services combined with the ability to surmount any possible obstacles.

As part of STN’s work ethic to research the needs of the current market and advance forward, STN’s engineers developed an enhancement for uplink transmission service technology for the Ka-band. Previous studies had shown that this Ka band proved extremely sensitive to strong weather conditions,( primarily the vapor caused by rain). This new unique system has proven itself to be most effective and provides maximum percentage performance o regardless of the current adverse weather sweeping accross different parts for the world.