South Africa’s Telecommunications Company, Sentech, has signed a commercial cooperation agreement with GlobeCast Africa enabling programme satellite linking to and from anywhere in the world.
Riaan Emerich, Sentech Portfolio manager, says the agreement will give Sentech access to a host of programme linking platforms from five continents, including news, entertainment, sports and coverage on events of global importance.
In turn GlobeCast will have access to feeds from South Africa, taking them to the rest of the world. GlobeCast is a global content management and content delivery company. Via its worldwide satellite and fibre network, the company manages and transports 10 million hours of video and other rich media yearly for its core customer base of broadcasters, as well as corporate, government and retail clients.
GlobeCast was recently involved in sending signals from the winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, and the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia. It will also be involved in the FIFA World Cup in Germany and the Asian Games in Qatat this year, as well as next year’s IRB Rugby World Cup in France.
“In the case of an international sporting event like the FIFA World Cup, GlobeCast Africa can pass on the content to Sentech who will then pass it on to the local television stations. The agreement will also enable major sporting events in South Africa to be broadcast to the rest of the world,”
concludes Emerich.
Sentech’s mandate is connecting the world through a wide range of communication solutions. From the sounds of radio to the visions of television and the world-wide-web, Sentech have evolved into a competitive information communication technology (ICT) company boasting of a number licenses and expertise that allows the company to bring customers in South Africa and beyond, a host of high-end communication products and services.
