Seen this story in the Daily Nation?

I'm not against the Chinese, but I don't understand at all our governments overdrive to give up almost everything to the Chinese firms. Even operations that would be easily used to compromise national security and citizen's confidentiality...NKT!!!

Somebody needs to advice the government accordingly.

I keep on wondering......what exactly is "Kenyan" these days. Nation is owned by Aga khan, Breweries by Diageo, Safaricom by vodafone, Telkom by Orange, even Ekwity is not "ours".

Signet (owned by KBC) was to distribute the DVB-T signal but the media houses (NTV, KTN, citzen et al) complained that they wanted competition[read piece of the pie]. They actually withdrew their content from Signet. Now that they've missed out... the wail from roof tops.

Am not convinced that a chinese firm is best suited for this though

Media houses cannot be trusted to report objectively on their interests.e.g I watch citizen and I hate the way they try to pass promotional campaigns(which they are paid for) as news eti.."in other news the inooro caravan...blah blah"

Plus I don't think ordinary Kenyans care how the signal gets to their TV.

If they were so concerned about how the ordinary mwananchi's rights are going to be abused by the chinese they should have noticed that orange's 3g network was to be done by huawei(chinese) and complained as well.

They are just sour losers.

seriously what intelligence can they collect 90% ni telenovelas and naija movies

These Chinamen are seriously hard workers though. Hapana mchezo!

This is what might be happening very soon!

http://www.youtube.com/w...feature=player_embedded

The story we are getting is not objective since those reporting are interested parties in the dispute. And our Kenyan media houses [especially the big 3 - NMG, SGL, and RMS] have serious objectivity issues when it comes to stories touching on them.

They are trying to create the impression that the license was give to the "oppressive" Chinese government, yet it was given to a PRIVATE company owned by Chinese nationals.

Secondly, there is nothing in the tender requirements that says when the applicant should get relevant documents. So the claim that the Certificate of Tax Compliance is dubious because it was acquired one week before the tender closing/opening date is frivolous at the least.

Third, the appeal process has not been exhausted. The Kenyan media can now go to the high court and seek redress IFF they have valid grounds. After all; there is a new Sheriff in town.

I agree here to the old adage that it would be unwise to have monkeys adjudicate on matters over forest.

Media houses have done very little to develop content (their core business) yet they also want to distribute. When it was left to them, they had transmitters all over (ngong Limuru, Mavoko) confusing consumers with low quality signals.

As I said, and I stand to be corrected, chinese may not be the best for the job but neither are NMG's of this world angels.

I guess we need to differentiate between content and actual delivery...they are only going to distribute the content, not be a source of the content, i think this is just but useless hullabaloo perpetuated by the media because it is about the media...what would you be more concerned about, your TV signal being hacked or your mobile phone conversations being hacked...

So while we are trying to cry over this new tender, the chinese have been quietly controlling most if not all the voice traffic and data on the cell phone market....how come nobody is concerned about that?