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StarTimes

Founded in 1988, StarTimes Group is a Chinese multinational media company headquartered in Beijing. After many years in development, StarTimes has become a major System Integrator, Technology Provider, Network Operator, and Content Provider in African television broadcasting industry. Since 2008 when StarTimes started operation in African market, the company has been sparing no effort to realize its ambitious mission: "To ensure that every African family can access, afford, watch and share the beauty of digital TV". Today, as the leading digital-TV operator in Africa, StarTimes is 13 million DVB subscribers and 20 million OTT users, and covering whole of the continent's population with a massive distribution network. It has established subsidiaries in 30+ African countries. StarTimes now is the only brand who is simultaneously running DTT, DTH and OTT businesses in African market, and the only company who is engaged in B2B and B2C business at the same time. StarTimes aims to become a media group with international influence. StarTimes is assisting to ensure that the African continent and media development progresses to the next level in digital television broadcasting. StarTimes is the key partner to Africa in her effort to migrate from analogue to digital.