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The panel session at the Broadcasters Convention – Southern Africa 2025 in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, focused on New Media Infrastructure Investment: Case For Profitable Partnerships For A Connected Ecosystem.

The core message revolved around the urgent need for robust and scalable media infrastructure in Southern Africa to support the surging demand for digital content, OTT services, and cloud-based broadcasting. The discussion strongly advocated that achieving this vital infrastructure backbone requires strategic, profitable partnerships across various sectors.

The panel emphasised that the current infrastructure across the region is unevenly developed, creating a bottleneck for the digital expansion driven by new media consumption. To overcome this, the session positioned Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) as the most viable path forward.

Some key points from the resource include:

● Reducing Capital Expenditure (CapEx) for individual entities.
● Improving regional reach for content distribution.
● Driving down service affordability for end-users.