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(b) The SABC has three free-to-air channels, which broadcast in 11
languages. According to the report, these channels reach a daily audience of
almost 18 million people and have more than four million licensed television
households (GCIS, 2006/7:141-142).
(c) The e.tv (nd) is South Africa's first private free-to-air television
channel and was launched in 1998. According to their report, the e.tv
channel broadcasts a full-spectrum programming service to 78% of South
Africa's population.
(d) M-Net is South Africa's first private subscription television service and
was launched in 1986. M-Net channels are delivered through analogue
terrestrial and digital satellite distribution, and offer movies, sport, children's
programmes, international and local series, and local reality shows (GCIS,
2006/7:142).
(e) South Africa's telephone system is the best developed and most
sophisticated on the African continent. Domestic systems consist of carrier­
equipped open-wire lines, co-axial cables, microwave radio relay links, fiber­
optic cables, radiotelephone communication stations and wireless local loops.
Currently, Telkom has well over five million fixed lines in use (DoC - USA,
2006:21).
(f) The Online Publishers' Association (OPA) and the international ratings
company Nielsen/Net ratings, in Government Communications and
Information Systems [GCIS] (2006/2007: 135), indicate that South African
websites are attracting an increasing number of local and international
consumers. By June 2006, readership or unique browser figures had reached
4.6 million, and page impressions had hit 115 million.
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