SA is ‘making progress’ with digital migration, years after the 2015 deadline
But DA MP Phumzile Van Damme says Communications Minister Ayanda Dlodlo must maintain oversight at the department’s entities without unduly interfering
Significant progress has been made in the implementation of digital terrestrial television, Communications Minister Ayanda Dlodlo said Friday. Delivering her maiden budget vote speech in Parliament following her recent appointment to the portfolio, Dlodlo said broadcasting digital migration remained a flagship programme of the department. She said 18 analogue transmitters had so far been switched off in the core towns of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). The Department of Communications has said the signal would be switched off in inland provinces by the 2019-0 financial year. However, SA already lags much of Africa on digital migration and missed the 2015 International Telecommunications Union deadline to switch its signal to digital. This means the union will no longer protect SA’s analogue signal and people living in border areas could experience signal interruptions. The delay in the migration from analogue to digital broadcasting has frustrated many players in the ICT sector wh...
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