Communications minister Khumbodzu Ntshavheni has announced a deadline for qualifying poor households to register for a free digital decoder before the final analogue switch-off date would be determined.
Communications minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni says a new date for South Africa’s analogue switch-off will be announced after September 2022.two days before the deadline, setting aside a High Court ruling in the minister’s favour.It argued that numerous households relying on analogue TV broadcasts would be left in the dark if switch-off went ahead.
The court said it could not prescribe the process to follow for completing South Africa’s digital terrestrial television migration. The minister said Icasa would release the auctioned high-demand spectrum for use by mobile network operators in these provinces. These set-top boxes are decoder-like devices that convert digital TV broadcast into a signal older analogue-only TVs can display.
The call for applications for these STBs began in October 2015, meaning qualifying households had almost seven years to register. “Through this notice, I will also inform members of the public and non-indigent households who are still watching analogue TV, of my intension to switch-off analogue and urge them to purchase compliant digital television sets from the retail market,” the minister said.
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