Btv to pay INTELSAT P130 million

The Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Board's  (PPADB) website lists its decision on tender number PR 17/1/418-2, in which the Department of Broadcasting Services sought "authority to renew contract for provision of satellite transponder services with INTELSAT for six (6) years at US 3,326 400 per annum inclusive of vat". That translates to about P 133 721 280 over the six-year period. The tender was awarded two weeks back.

In an earlier interview Broadcasting Services Director Mogomotsi Kaboeamodimo had asserted that details of a contract between Btv and the company providing satellite services to the station are privileged information "between ourselves and our service provider"