StarSat blackout due to fibre break in Slovenia

Cape Town – The StarSat blackout which hit on Monday afternoon and Tuesday and saw the satellite pay-TV service in South Africa go dead was caused by a problem at the uplink site in Slovenia used by the operator.

Subscribers of the struggling StarSat, run by On Digital Media (ODM) and China's StarTimes Media SA, lost their channels on Monday afternoon, with no word or explanation from the Woodmead-based company as to what happened, why or when their service would be restored.