done deal! the migration of broadcasting, from the analogue to the digital standard, arrived in Mozambique as a business of private interests before safeguarding the public interest around the process. the Government of Mozambique, guardian of the public interest, sponsored the deal between the Chinese firm starTimes and the Mozambican Focus 21, the holding company of the business family by arming emílio Guebuza. with the hand of the Government and the absence of legislation on digital broadcasting in the country, starTimes simultaneously assumes itself as a cheap subscription digital television service and digital signal operator, in a business that has operated as a monopoly for five months.
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