Broadcasting Digital Migration News Today

South Africa moves closer to digital television, as analogue broadcasting services above 694MHz go off across the country, with telcos expected to soon get spectrum go-ahead.

Minister Mondli Gungubele’s department will shortly announce the final date for analogue switch-off, to free up much-needed spectrum.

As the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies (DCDT) works to complete its South Africa Connect (SA Connect) programme, it is mandating the State Information Technology Agency (SITA) to launch a R6-billion national broadband project. The project, to be awarded per region, aims to ensure that government reduces the cost of communication infrastructure from municipality up to national government level, said Communications and Digital Technologies Minister Mondli Gungubele.

During a briefing on Friday she said this may have a negative impact not only on people, but also the economy. 

The department of communications and digital technologies says floods have affected the installation rate of set-top boxes in KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape.

The government has set March 2022 as the deadline for the country to move over to digital terrestrial television transmission in all provinces.

South Africa is hard at work to ensure that they meet the March 31, 2022 deadline to complete the migration from analog to digital for improved services, said Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies Khumbudzo Ntshavheni Tuesday. Ntshavheni made the remarks while briefing the media and giving the update about…

2888 It looks like the long-awaited switch-off of South Africa’s analogue television transmitters to free up spectrum and transfer viewers to digital TV is finally going to happen. Last week the country’s president Cyril Ramaphosa said that he expected the province-by-province process to start this March and be completed by the end of March 2022. Like a number of countries in Africa, South Africa missed the original deadline set by the International Telecommunication Union for completion of...

Communications and Digital Technologies SOEs merge The Department of Communications and Digital Technologies has embarked on a process to merge some of its entities in line with the state owned enterprises (SOE’s) rationalisation plan. Source Tuesday, 15 December 2020, 14:51 These mergers are in line with last year’s State of the Nation Address by the President. NATIONAL NEWS - The Department of Communications and...

Internet changes planned for South Africa – including lower data prices and 5G roll-out Subscribe Communications and Digital Technologies minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams met with senior executives in her department this week to discuss a performance agreement that she has entered into with president Cyril Ramaphosa. The agreement sets out a number of targets which Ndabeni-Abrahams is expected to meet within the next years when it comes to the access of internet services in South Africa. The ...