Madam Speaker, I am informed by the Director General of the Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation that the broadcast and sub-licensing rights for the FIFA World Cup of 2026 across the African region, including Sub-Saharan Africa, are held by New World Televisions SA, which is a company based in Togo. The two main broadcasting rights which are most commonly commercialised to broadcasters are free-to-air broadcasting rights and pay TV broadcasting rights. The free-to- air broadcasting rights for the FIFA World Cup of 2026 are meant only for public broadcasters whereby the public can access the channels without paying any subscription fee. The pay TV broadcasting rights are meant for subscription television operators only. On 02 December 2025, an agreement was signed between the Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation and the New World Televisions SA – which as I said, is a company based in Togo – in respect of the FIFA World Cup of 2026. Under this agreement, the Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation has secured the rights to broadcast 34 free-to-air matches out of the 104 matches scheduled for the tournament, as included in the package allocated to Sub- Saharan Africa. This package comprises the opening ceremony, the closing ceremony, some of the matches and the final. These matches will be broadcast on the MBC 11 Sports Channel. The full FIFA World Cup 2026 package will be made available on the MBC Play App. This is a digital streaming platform, developed to deliver television and multimedia content directly to viewers over the internet upon a payment of a subscription fee of Rs300. I wish to point out that, for the FIFA World Cup of 2022, the MBC Play App was available on smart phones only. However, this year, the current MBC Play App is being upgraded and will be compatible on both smart TVs and smart phones.

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