Astro (PT Direct Vision) has no 'landing rights', says Indonesian authority
There is a timelag for information to get across the Malacca Straits. Was it because Astro didn't convey it to Bursa Malaysia in good time?
Indonesia's Communications & Information Dept issued a statement on March 22, 2006, implying that Astro (PT Direct Vision) has breached Indonesian law by broadcasting without "landing rights". See the announcement here.
But the news only broke in Malaysia on April 17, when Maybank Securities issued an investment advisory and placed an "AVOID" call in Astro counter.
Hadn't Astro management told the financial analysts and Bursa Saham that it has obtained all the approvals in Indonesia? This is the track record of Astro's voluntary disclosure on Bursa Malaysia website.
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No landing rights in Indonesia for astro's sattelite? No problem. get themselves a reputable Indonesian lawyer to scrutinise the law,prefferably the same ones that represented air asia (learn how air asia got their landing rights in both thailand and indonesia), get a local partner to comply with the law, and lease your sattelite to this new indonesian JV set up.Good luck.
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April 20, 2006 09:23 AM
It seems the launch of Measat3 will delay again.
In Asia, you can find transponders at a price that is well below cost:
http://www.telecommagazine.com/International/article.asp?HH_ID=AR_940
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April 20, 2006 11:45 AM
Landing rights? I am somewhat blur here, but seems I recall that the Measat satellites' footprints covers large areas surrounding Malaysia, including a lot of Indonesia and even parts of Australia [if I am not mistaken].
If so, "landing rights" legalese aside, it there anything Indonesia can actually do to prevent the Measat signals from reaching Indon territory?
JEFF OOI says: "Footprint" and "landing rights" are two different issues. I'll let people in the lnow elaborate on this. I am pretty tied up now as I have two presentations to make at the conference I am attending now.
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April 20, 2006 12:23 PM
Leithaisor, the issue isn't Astro's satellite breeching Indo territory. It's that they've begun broadcast (apparently on Feb 28) without waiting for their license.
This is Indonesia's first foreign satellite provider and prior to this they didn't have clear regulations on 'landing rights'. Read this - http://www.telegeography.com/cu/article.php?article_id=10532
I think a proper layman description of 'landing right' is the permission to transmit to a terminal in a particular region. At the moment, only Indonesia's own satellite TV providers are allowed 'landing rights'.
Astro's ambitions got them carried away. Bottom line? Bad for business.
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April 20, 2006 02:54 PM
Ah so... so it was more or legalities, eh? As in the Indons who secured the ASTRO sim card (through all their countrymen over here mailing them one for instance), and maybe the decoder, or (shhhhh!) one of those 3rd party "SIM-less" decoders may well have been watching ASTRO for years already.
But officially tak boleh lah, and in particular, ASTRO cannot cari makan there in terms of subscriptions, and possibly ad revenue.
And in true gung-ho style, ASTRO put the bullock before the cart. Have I got the scenerio reasonably correct?
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April 21, 2006 08:37 AM