Poor households have until the end of September to apply for television set-top boxes needed to convert digital broadcasting signal transmissions to analogue, the minister of minister of communications and digital technologies Khumbuzo Ntshavheni said o...
SA is migrating from analogue to digital broadcasting to free up the spectrum that is needed by cellphone network operators for the rollout of super fast internet infrastructure.
Ntshavheni said September 30 is the closing date for applications and registrations for government-subsidised STBs for qualifying indigent households.Ntshavheni said three months is sufficient for last registrations, given the decline in STB applications and registrations in recent months and compared to the end of October, end of March and end of June registrations.
In the government gazette notice to be published on Friday for the STB registrations deadline, Ntshavheni will also announce the new date for analogue switch-off. The migration process has been delayed by, among others, litigation from the broadcasting industry.
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