The issue will come to a head tomorrow when Icasa will decide on the fate of Super5Media (formerly Telkom Media which sold their stake to Schenzhen Media) which was once seen as the strongest applicant to start a new pay TV service in South Africa.
Icasa is not going to have any further public hearings on the matter of Super 5 Media's application extensions, with insiders within the authority indicating that Super 5 Media's time - and the regulator's patience - has finally all but run out. Super 5 Media kept asking for - and got - numerous extensions after its abysmal failure to start despite several promises - and then further extensions after the implosion of the Centurion based company in July 2010.
