StarTimes Media Co. Ltd
StarTimes Media Co. Ltd is a Chinese electronics and media company founded in 1988 by Chinese engineer Pang Xinxing (龐新星). The company, with a strong presence in Sub-Saharan Africa, offers digital terrestrial and satellite television services while providing technologies to countries transitioning from analog to digital television. As of 2024, StarTimes established “a network transmission platform covering 45 countries and 1.2 billion people in Sub-Saharan Africa” and became “the only operator providing paid-long video services in English, French, and Portuguese-speaking regions of Africa simultaneously.” In 2018, the company began implementing the “Access to satellite TV for 10,000 African villages” project, which it described as a “China-Africa cooperation project aimed at giving rural areas of Africa access to digital media.”
