Khumbudzo Ntshavheni has set a new analogue switch-off date for terrestrial television broadcasting services in South Africa: 31 March 2023.
The minister’s new analogue switch-off date comes a year after she had originally wanted to terminate analogue terrestrial broadcasts in South Africa and is eight years beyond the date the country committed to the International Telecommunication Union, an agency of the United Nations, to get the job done.
The migration from analogue to digital TV is a critical component of ensuring mobile operators get access to spectrum suitable for deploying broadband services.in the constitutional court with free-to-air broadcaster e.tv over her plans to conclude ASO. The country’s apex court set aside a decision by the high court that analogue broadcasts could be switched off by end-June.
Asked for comment on the minister’s latest ASO date, e.tv CEO Khalik Sherrif told TechCentral that the company is “rather alarmed at how out of kilter the minister is with what is really happening on the ground”.
When is the ANC switch off date?
Yes. June 2015.